Quotes About Burroughs

I like movies with superheroes - one of my favorite movies of all time was 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.'

The only other people who have had experiences similar to those of this man were locked up inside institutions for the criminally insane. The difference is, this guy gets business cards.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.

Captain Billings, he drawled finally, if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain.

Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan

P38- little tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny lord greystoke and which meant white skin

This one looks like a man and I swear she would be as easy to subdue as a she banth. I know the type.

They'd drive to just outside Roxbury and meet Burroughs at Woodchuck Lodge, the property he often wrote about in his books and magazine articles.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact.

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalysts his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars

Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank -- or to blame.

In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

I would say that Times Square was the central hangout for Burroughs, Kerouac, and myself from about 1945 to 1948.

He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.