William S. Burroughs Junk Quotations

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk..

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'

Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need - you can predict the results. Leave a sick junkie in the back room of a drugstore and only one result is possible.

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.