Perhaps all pleasure in only relief
William S. Burroughs, Junky.
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replac...”
“When you stop growing you start dying.”
“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You dont wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict....”
“I knew that I no longer wanted to take junk. If I could have made one decision, it would have been no more junk, ever, but when it came to the process of quitting I did not have the drive. It gave ...”
“A room full of fags gives me the horrors. They jerk around like puppets on invisible strings, galvanized into hideous activity that is the negation of everything living and spontaneous. The live hu...”
“A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no...”
“I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet.”
“We all have those things that help us carry on through life. It is important that these things upon which we depend for daily strength are healthy for our character rather than harmful. We must ask...”
“God made you for His pleasure. And He made you intrinsically needy and dependent on His unspeakable joy. If you are struggling with sin our addiction, dont try to kill your appetite for pleasure. I...”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”
“It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.”