The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot...
I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wan...
Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?
If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary...
It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
A junkie spends half his life waiting.
I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.
Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.
The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.
Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.
Poverty of young men alone behind thestairways, who practicealchemy inside bottle caps, who knowthe altruism of a last syringe.
Burroughs a purest ignu his haircut is a cream his left finger pinkey chopped off for early ignu reasons metaphysical spells love spells with psychoanalystshis very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a...
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.
It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked b...
I wind up stretched across the couch
I wind up stretched across the couchstill nodding with Sherlock Holmesexamining our crushed veins
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said.Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art, Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans are comedians, the inspector thought, a...
Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled...
Ros was dead.He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted...