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

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

Time is what death needs to grow people in.

danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.