"Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I'v..." — William S. Burroughs

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.

Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.