How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.

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