Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

The line reduces drug use to a blunt pharmacological and psychological constant: the route of administration may change, but the compulsive dependency it produces does not. Its deliberately crude catalog of methods underscores Burroughs’s characteristic refusal to romanticize intoxication; the shock value functions as moral clarity rather than titillation. The statement also reflects a broader Burroughs theme: systems of control operate through bodily need and habit, and addiction is a paradigmatic form of that control. By collapsing distinctions between “acceptable” and “deviant” consumption, the quote challenges the idea that technique, setting, or subcultural style can sanitize an addictive relationship to a substance.