 |
 |
INTERVIEWER
You regard addiction as an illness, but also a central human fact, a drama?
BURROUGHS
Both, absolutely. It’s as simple as the way in which anyone happens to become an alcoholic. They start drinking, that’s all. They like it, and they drink, and then they become alcoholic. . . . Remember that if it can be readily obtained, you will have any number of addicts. The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It’s as psychological as malaria. It’s a matter of exposure.
|
 Download a PDF of the full interview |
|
|
|
|
| Related Links |
|
| Authors Mentioned |
| Samuel Beckett, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, Jean Genet, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Arthur Rimbaud, Raymond Chandler, Joseph Conrad, Brion Gysin, Richard Hughes, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Tom Lea, John O'Hara, Eric Frank Russell, William Shakespeare, Jack Stern, Tristan Tzara |
|
|
|
