Public speaking instructors invariably recommend visualizing your audience as naked to relieve the stress of giving your speech. This is in contrast to a very typical characterization of public humiliation: that you are standing in front of a bunch of people and none of them are naked except you. Well, I say compromise—everybody ought to be naked.

We have to teach the baby, begged our brother Linus. He dwelt in the Yellow Room, the brilliant canary walls of which kept siblings at bay. We can't let her forget her native language.

(or The American DoubleBind)

In the west, in America specifically, there has been for a long time now the separation of church and state – that is the separation of religion from the state of being alive. Religion has been relegated to the reliquary and rules, in the majority of our minds, only the dark province of death.

You may speak until the first obscenity. Then you will have to stop. That night was my first in company since my depression and I was anxious to appear “the life of the party” so I told my joke.

Although many classics have undergone profound metamorphoses over time, nothing compares to the variety of the Nights.

Virus is accelerated to the brain universe that was processed the paradise apparatus of the human body pill cruel emulator corpse feti=streaming of the soul/gram made of retro-ADAM data=mutant of her abolition world-codemaniacs feeling replicant****I...

Two fat & lazy nickels can't equal the nervous intensity of a dime.

Patients with recurrent perseveration as part of a fluent left temporal lobe aphasia often consciously intend to produce a requested target on confrontation testing in the clinic. However, suddenly and quite unexpectedly, they will have a perseveration happen to them...

Politics are bountiful in most of American novelist William S. Burroughs’s canon. Whether they are of a strictly political nature or psychological, sexual, or psychosexual ones, his prose seeps with power struggles between both individuals and groups. However, in respect to politics qua politics, only in Naked Lunch does the author forthrightly address the political spectrum as a whole.