Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
William S. BurroughsWhen you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.
William S. BurroughsMadness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
William S. BurroughsWhen all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
William S. BurroughsAll political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.
William S. Burroughs