All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs. — Yannis Philippakis Copy Share Image
After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in… — Kate Simon Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that… — Yony Leyser Copy Share Image
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
Burroughs called his greatest novel Naked Lunch, by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. He's… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
With ‘Avatar,’ I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys’ adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
“some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work. — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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