substance that he tolerates is marijuana. He is basically a junky and junkies like things to be simple. Burroughs has forgotten more about drugs than I?ve learnt. He considers himself a very successful junky, and I would have to agree that he is well in charge of his life. He knows what he is doing. As for myself, I think that heroin is probably the best anaesthetic there is. I don?t want to generalize. I?ve taken heroin maybe only fifteen times in my life for curiosity, but it?s obviously a loner drug. You take it to go within. It?s a powerful inner experience but you?re not socially aware under its influence. To me, heroin and cocaine are a kind of masturbatory lonely use experience. Anyway, Burroughs isn?t a guy that would go around talking about peace and love at the best of times. He?s a very crusty introverted type with a deep sense of humor. Burroughs is now doing shot-gun art. He fires tubes of paint onto the canvas. The thing is that he?s making more money in one month from his paintings than he made in years writing, perhaps in the whole of his literary life. Although his books are tremendously influential, they never sold. What?s more, people discuss his ideas without ever buying his books. Burroughs doesn?t even want to write anymore. The story is that as long as Gysin was alive, Burroughs was too intimidated to try and paint, almost as if he didn?t want to be