Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like automatic writing. A writer, on the other hand, can't help but know what he's going to write, because the activity demands a degree of premeditation.
William S. BurroughsTell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
William S. BurroughsThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
William S. BurroughsFor seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.
William S. Burroughs