Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
William S. BurroughsSome people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
William S. BurroughsHow far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.
William S. BurroughsThere's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
William S. Burroughs