Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience — any f...ing thing.

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

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

Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies can only repeat themselves word for word. A virus is a copy. You can pretty it up, cut it up, scramble it - it will reassemble in the same form.