- Joan Vollmer: So, do they have ruins down in Guatemala?
- William S. Burroughs: It's all ruins. Or it all will be, given enough time.
- Joan Vollmer: Ah, just like people.
- William S. Burroughs: Yes. But people decay more promptly than Mayan temples.
- Joan Vollmer: Say Bill, does the Oedipal Complex get reversed for fags?
- William S. Burroughs: [pause] Well, speaking from personal experience, I never wanted to fuck my father.
- Joan Vollmer: [chuckles]
- Lucien Carr: They'll probably give me the chair for this, huh?
- William S. Burroughs: Don't be absurd. They don't fry freshman literature students.
- Joan Vollmer: And what does your young man make of the Mayans?
- William S. Burroughs: Well I have yet to inquire about his preference in lost civilizations.
- Joan Vollmer: Ah, but he must like ruins.
- William S. Burroughs: [chuckles] Yes. He likes me tolerably enough.
- Allen Ginsberg: So. How are you?
- Joan Vollmer: How am I? I live in a Mexican slum. My husband has run off with another man. And I've been too busy with my children to go down to the pharmacia and refill my dexetrina.
- Lucien Carr: Scratch a bohemian and you get a boy scout, not that I'm a bohemian... or a boy scout, but...
- William S. Burroughs: Are you leaving me?
- Joan Vollmer: Should I?
- William S. Burroughs: [long pause] As you like.
- Allen Ginsberg: You know as Bill says, you better get comfortable with your space time location.
- Lucien Carr: This is not my space time lcation! This is fucking nowhere!
- Joan Vollmer: Didn't you two bone up on your wilderness lore down there in the jungle?
- Lee: The jungle was fucking ghastly
- Joan Vollmer: Uh, I don't understand, the jungle was ghastly or the fucking was ghastly... or both?