William S. Burroughs Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997
Birthday: February 5
Death: August 2
I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.
source: William S. Burroughs (1992). “Esquire: The Magazine for Men”
topic: Country, Sleep, Night, Centipedes
