William S. Burroughs Ipsum

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. anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means. happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. 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. be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. desperation is the raw material of drastic change. only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. the first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible there is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. language is a virus from outer space. when you stop growing you start dying. cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the muse. there is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. open your mind and let the pictures out. "it is you who will shut up like burning gasoline jelly it needed the eyes..