Burroughs Quotes

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.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn`t thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.

There is no right or wrong reading of Naked Lunch, though some readings are more common, and thus Burroughs` commercial is not the issue.