You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. (Interview, The Paris Review)

Burroughs is featured on the 2000 compilation tribute album Stoned Immaculate on a track that pairs Jim Morrison yelping and groaning with Burroughs reading Morrison's poetry. : /ˈbʌroʊz/; also known by his pen name William Lee; (1914-02-05)February 5 1914 – August 2 1997(1997-08-02)) was an American novelist short story writer essayist painter and spoken word performer. Return to U.

Burroughs had one child William Seward Burroughs III (1947-1981) with his second wife Joan Vollmer. sodomy laws. S.