There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. BurroughsThere are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
William S. BurroughsYou see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like junk.
William S. BurroughsNo body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
William S. BurroughsWriting prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
William S. Burroughs