Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.

The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines.

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

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.