"When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state of shrinking and growing in his daily cycle of sho...












You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
More William S. Burroughs quotes
"I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
"Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
"The 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 wak...
"Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no l...
"Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are sub...
"A junkie spends half his life waiting.
"I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking...
"In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of ...