Lila Lyons

“I remembered a long time ago when I lay in bed beside my mother, watching lights from the street move across the ceiling and down the walls. I felt the sharp nostalgia of train whistles, piano music down a city street, burning leaves. A mild degree of junk sickness always brought me the magic of childhood.”
― William S. Burroughs, Junky

“Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawing is the transition from plant back to animal, from painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.”
― William S. Burroughs

“Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.”
― Richard Russo, Mohawk

“Everything was being mixed up, and all was falling.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road