In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .

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

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.