A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. BurroughsTags: politics philosophy drugs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. BurroughsTags: remaining-silent silence reticence introspection loquacity
Language is a virus from outer space
William S. BurroughsTags: language
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
William S. BurroughsI don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. BurroughsIt's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.
William S. BurroughsEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. BurroughsTags: disadvantage internal parasites
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
William S. BurroughsTags: writers burroughs careers
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
William S. BurroughsThe question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal symptoms were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.
The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict’s special need. You don’t decide to be an addict. One morning you wake up sick and you’re an addict. (Junky, Prologue, p. xxxviii)
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