Junky

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else’s luck. The luck of most people is strictly nontransferable.

You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in any other direction. Junk wins by default.

Junk and Burroughs go together, he’s the addict-artist of the twentieth century

To get a measure of this book,

He wasn’t the sort of man whose pocket you would try to pick unless you had a lot of confi

I recall hearing a maid talk about opium and how smoking opium brings sweet dreams, and I said: “I will smoke opium when I grow up.”

Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, frightened flesh. Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.