William S. Burroughs.

Anyone from Outer Space Would Look at This Planet and Say, ‘I Want to See the Manager’.

The Mark of a Basic Shit Is That He Can’t Mind His Own Business.

Never Go into Business with a Religious SOB, as He’ll Always Have His God Telling Him How to Screw You on the Deal.

A Paranoid Is Someone Who Has a Small Idea of What Is Going On. a Psychotic Is Someone Who Has Found Out What Is Going On.

All Political Movements Are Basically Anti Creative Since a Political Movement Is a Form of War. There’s No Place for Impractical Dreamers Around Here, That’s What They Always Say. Your Writing Activities Will Be Directed, Kindly Stop Horsing Around.

As Soon as You Know You Are in Prison, You Have a Possibility to Escape.

There Is Nothing More Provocative Than Minding Your Own Business.

All Abilities Are Paid for with Disabilities. Perfect Health May Entail the Heavy Toll of Bovine Stupidity. Insight into One Area Involves Blind Spots in Another.

A Consumer Society Is About Simplifying and Degrading the Consumer as Well as the Product.

The Way to Kill a Man or a Nation Is to Cut off His Dreams, the Way the Whites Are Taking Care of the Indians: Killing Their Dreams, Their Magic, Their Familiar Spirits.

Sometimes Paranoia’s Just Having All the Facts.

If, After Spending Time with a Person, You Feel as Though You’ve Lost a Quart of Plasma, Avoid That Person in the Future.

England Has the Most Sordid Literary Scene I’ve Ever Seen. They All Meet in the Same Pub. This Guy’s Writing a Foreword for This Person. They All Have to Give Radio Programs, They Have to Do All This Just in Order to Scrape By. They’re All Scratching Each Other’s Backs.

Intelligence and War Are Games, Perhaps the Only Meaningful Games Left. If Any Player Becomes Too Proficient, the Game Is Threatened with Termination.

The Best Way to Keep Something Bad from Happening Is to See It Ahead of Time… and You Can’t See It If You Refuse to Face the Possibility.

He Asked If I Wouldn’t Like to Live Completely Without Problems, Say in Greece Maybe, Nice Climate, Everything Provided? I Say: When We Find Out What We Are Actually Doing and Who We Actually Are, That Is the Point of Living…it May Be Only a Few Seconds…a Few Seconds of Significant Actions, Out of a Lifetime…

A Doctor Is Not Criticized for Describing the Manifestations and Symptoms of an Illness, Even Though the Symptoms May Be Disgusting. I Feel That a Writer Has the Right to the Same Freedom. in Fact, I Think That the Time Has Come for the Line Between Literature and Science, a Purely Arbitrary Line, to Be Erased.

I Think Anybody Incapable of Changing His Mind Is Crazy.

Thanks for the American Dream, to Vulgarize and Falsify Until the Bare Lies Shine Through. Thanks for a Country Where Nobody’s Allowed to Mind Their Own Business.

Society Is Cancerous and Bureaucracy Is Its Cancer.

If Everyone Is to Be Made Responsible for Everything They Do, You Must Extend Responsibility Beyond the Level of Conscious Intention.

God Save the Queen and a Fascist Regime … a Flabby Toothless Fascism, to Be Sure. Never Go Too Far in Any Direction, Is the Basic Law on Which Limey Land Is Built. the Queen Stabilizes the Whole Sinking Shithouse and Keeps a Small Elite of Wealth and Privilege on Top. the English Have Gone Soft in the Outhouse. England Is Like Some Stricken Beast Too Stupid to Know It Is Dead. Ingloriously Foundering in Its Own Waste Products, the Backlash and Bad Karma of Empire.

We Must All Face the Fact That Our Leaders Are Certifiably Insane or Worse

There Couldn’t Be a Society of People Who Didn’t Dream. They’d Be Dead in Two Weeks.

If You Wish to Alter or Annihilate a Pyramid of Numbers in a Serial Relation, You Alter or Remove the Bottom Number. If We Wish to Annihilate the Junk Pyramid, We Must Start with the Bottom of the Pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and Stop Tilting Quixotically for the Higher Ups so Called, All of Whom Are Immediately Replaceable. the Addict in the Street Who Must Have Junk to Live Is the One Irreplaceable Factor in the Junk Equation. When There Are No More Addicts to Buy Junk There Will Be No Junk Traffic. as Long as Junk Need Exists, Someone Will Service It

One Very Important Aspect of Art Is That It Makes People Aware of What They Know and Don’t Know They Know… Once the Breakthrough Is Made, There Is a Permanent Expansion of Awareness. but There Is Always a Reaction of Rage, of Outrage, at the First Breakthrough… so the Artist, Then, Expands Awareness. and Once the Breakthrough Is Made, This Becomes Part of the General Awareness.

Writing Prejudicial, off Putting Reviews Is a Precise Exercise in Applied Black Magic. the Reviewer Can Draw Free Floating Disagreeable Associations to a Book by Implying That the Book Is Completely Unimportant Without Saying Exactly Why, and Carefully Avoiding Any Clear Images That Could Capture the Reader’s Full Attention

The Program of the Ruling Elite in Orwell’s 1984 Was: a Foot Stamping on a Human Face Forever! This Is Naive and Optimistic. No Species Could Survive for Even a Generation Under Such Program. This Is Not a Program of Eternal, or Even Long Range Dominance. It Is Clearly an Extermination Program.

Wouldn’t It Be Great, as Scott Peck Suggests, If All Medical Students Had to Undergo the Symptoms and Feeling of a Spectrum of Illnesses. from Acute Infections to Terminal Cancer and Kuru, the Laughing Sickness. Just a Month for Each Exposure, Controlled of Course, and a Good Heavy Dose of Excruciating Pain. so They’ll Know What That Feels Like.

We Intend to Destroy All Dogmatic Verbal Systems.

Do Not Try and Cheat the Muse.

There Is a Boy Sitting at the Counter Thin Faced, His Eyes All Pupils, I See He Is Hooked and Sick.

I’ve Seen Villages in South America with No Police Whatever. Then the Cops Would Arrive, Then the Sanitary Inspectors, and Before You Know It They’ve Got All the Problems Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, the Whole Works Just Like Us.

It Is to Be Remembered That All Art Is Magical in Origin Music, Sculpture, Writing, Painting and by Magical I Mean Intended to Produce Very Definite Results. Paintings Were Originally Formulae to Make What Is Painted Happen. Art Is Not an End in Itself, Any More Than Einstein’s Matter into Energy Formulae Is an End in Itself. Like All Formulae, Art Was Originally FUNCTIONAL, Intended to Make Things Happen, the Way an Atom Bomb Happens from Einstein’s Formulae.

You See, Should I Stand in Front of a Landscape and Paint It, I’m Completely Ignoring the Factor of Time. While I Am Painting It, It’s Changing, Clouds Are Changing, All Sorts of Things. so There’s the Myth There of Someone Creating in a Timeless Vacuum.

Artists to My Mind Are the Real Architects of Change, and Not the Political Legislators Who Implement Change After the Fact.