There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow made from people who've died of the most loathsome diseases. It's too bad that [David] Cronenberg didn't see this book, see I only saw it after the film was made. It might have been of interest to him.
William S. BurroughsMost serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.
William S. BurroughsI began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
William S. Burroughs[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.
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