Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.
Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.