On Burroughs, I never had much luck with him. And I’m sorry that he has dimmed for you. That whole gang: Ginsberg, Corso, Burroughs, so forth, they long ago dimmed for me. When you write only to get famous you shit it away. I don’t want to make rules but if there is one it is: the only writers who write well are those who must write in order not to go mad.
