William S. Burroughs Ipsum

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. after a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. i sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. after one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'i want to see the manager.' every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. a psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on. love is a haunting melody that i have never mastered, and i fear i never will. there is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. nothing exists until or unless it is observed. an artist is making something exist by observing it. and his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. i call it 'creative observation.' creative viewing. man is an artifact designed for space travel. he is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the muse. how i hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. that old feeling is still in my leaking heart. and it wanted to be kissed, i can talk and eat and shit." like a tadpole's tail except for the eyes, you dig? for a while, you could see....

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'i want to see the manager.' a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. in deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. after one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say i want to see the manager. there is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. in homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. in heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling. hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. 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. and it wanted to be kissed, screaming at it to shut up... and the pieces would stick to his hands... than a crab's eye at the end of a stalk..

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. casual curses are the most effective. a paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. a psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on. and to start with it was like a novelty ventriloquist act. after a while, the ass started talking on its own. he would go in without anything prepared... and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. and built an act around it... and grow there. that's the one thing so, the brain couldn't and then finally.