America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
William S. BurroughsI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
William S. BurroughsIt is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter
William S. BurroughsWouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.
William S. Burroughs