Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
[william] Burroughs, incidentally, took up the slogan that we are "Here to go", which contradicts the tendency in Eastern mysticism to advocate… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon. — Susan Stinson Copy Share Image
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
“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
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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