End time Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward…

— Patti Smith

I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He…

— Kate Simon

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic…

— Oliver Harris

When I was 10 years old, I threw a bottle with a note in it in the ocean in Massachusetts, and Harrison Salisbury found…

— Amor Towles

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of…

— Truman Capote

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool -…

— Gregory Corso

I met one time Reece James when I was in London in a restaurant. Amazing guy.

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I met Jim Jarmusch when I started recording my album 'Ya Nass.' He was writing the script for 'Only Lovers Left Alive.' Jarmusch was…

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I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a…

— Pierre Berge

David Lander and I met in September of 1965. We were both students at Carnegie Tech, as it was then known. Before the Mellon…

— Michael McKean

John Bonham was a good friend of mine. I knew him a bit as a kid. I hung out with him quite a lot.

— Denny Laine

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over…

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