The Last Sentence In A Piece Is

We Imagine Things — That We Wouldn't Be Able To Survive, But In Fact, We Do Survive. ... We Have No Choice, So We Do It.

The Willingness To Accept Responsibility For One's Own Life Is The Source From Which Self-respect Springs.

The Ability To Think For One's Self Depends Upon One's Mastery Of The Language.

I Am A Writer. Imagining What Someone Would Say Or Do Comes To Me As Naturally As Breathing.

Burroughs's Voice Is Hard, Derisive, Inventive, Free, Funny, Serious, Poetic, Indelibly American.