Speed & Kentucky Ham Quotes

“When my grandfather died, we let the roof get a little grey and the two banyans in the backyard took each other in their arms and, weeping, filled with spider webs.”
― William S. Burroughs Jr., Speed & Kentucky Ham

“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy Burroughs’s spirit and the resilience of his voice have transformed his “surrealist desolation” into literature.”
― William S. Burroughs Jr., Speed and Kentucky Ham

“There’s a certain tear-jerking way that some people can go slowly wide-eyed before any entertainment. I watch them at movies and in shows sometimes, and if the action is good, their shoulders will slope and they turn right into open-mouthed children. Some of them are so old you wouldn’t think anything could get through to them, but the sight of one of them seen from a few feet behind, catching the glow from stage or screen lights, hits me as a miracle every time.”
― William S. Burroughs Jr., Speed and Kentucky Ham

“The Village is full of people who look quite alien and monstrous and I’m not speaking of hippies only, there are occasional soldiers of that lost battalion led by the man with the pincer, and the Village was dispassionately hostile to me.”
― William S. Burroughs Jr., Speed and Kentucky Ham