Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself.

Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

My cinematic crush has been pretty much the same since I was 12: Kevin Costner.

During the great storms of our lives we imitate those captains who jettison their weightiest cargo.

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A

Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

The more we demand that institutions allow us to be who we are, the more they're going to have to.