The word is now a virus.

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

The Nova Mob doesn't have motives, as we understand motives. "Sex is profoundly distasteful to a being of my mineral origin," as a leader of the Nova Mob, Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, said on one occasion.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.