An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.