“Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant i...” — J. G. Ballard Quote

“Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.”

“Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.”

“The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.”

“If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.”

“I'm always fascinated by people when they reach that fork in the road, where they can make a moral choice.”

“I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!”