We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need people who understand how the machine works - the mass media - unparalleled opportunity.
William S. BurroughsThe consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.
William S. BurroughsEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. BurroughsThe more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
William S. Burroughs