Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
William S. BurroughsWe must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.
William S. BurroughsA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
William S. BurroughsIf after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
William S. BurroughsThinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience โ any f...ing thing.
William S. BurroughsThe underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.
William S. Burroughs