William S. Burroughs Ipsum

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. the face of evil is always the face of total need. nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. love? what is it? most natural painkiller what there is. after one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say i want to see the manager. the face of 'evil' is always the face of total need. i am getting so far out one day i won't come back at all. panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. sealed off. as one judge said to another judge: be just. and if you can't be just, be arbitrary..

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. in deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. the only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. i bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink... nobody loved it. out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief.... words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. they belong to anyone who can use them. loot the louvre! a bas l'originalit.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. beating at it with his fists....