“I want to be sitting in front of my computer, where you can press a button to block out your junk mail.
These two are my junk mail.”

— Melina Marchetta , book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

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Australian teen writer 1965

Lisa Mason book Summer of Love

Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 15 “Over Under Sideways Down” (p. 329)

“You wore out a brand new trunk,
packin' and unpackin your junk.”

Hank Williams (1923–1953) American country music singer

"You're gonna change (or I'm gonna leave)" (1949)
Lyrics

“You have by this time surely seen with your own eyes what your iron ships, with which you think you can accomplish wonders and on which you boast so much, can do against my junks; how one of them has been burned by one of my junks and has disappeared in smoke; how the others would have met with the same doom had they not taken to flight and gone out to sea.”

Koxinga (1624–1662) Chinese military leader

Formosa under the Dutch: described from contemporary records, with explanatory notes and a bibliography of the island, 1903, William Campbell, Kegan Paul, 424, Dec. 20 2011 http://books.google.com/books?id=OpdMq-YJoeoC&pg=PA423&dq=koxinga+formosa+always+belonged+to+china&hl=en&ei=vsjiTergDM3TgAekqbzKBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEQQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=same%20doom%20had%20they%20not%20taken%20to%20flight%20and%20gone%20out%20to%20sea.&f=false, Original from the University of Michigan(LONDON : KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD DRYDEN HOUSE, 43 GERRARD STREET, SOHO MDCCCCIII Edinburgh : T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to His Majesty)

“I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.”

William S. Burroughs book Junkie

Prologue
Junkie (1953)

“I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

As quoted in "Of Eco And E-mail" by Anthony Haden-Guest, in The New Yorker (26 June 1995) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/26/of-eco-and-e-mail