If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one person outside the machine to give the necessary orders; if the machine absorbed or eliminated all those outside the machine, the machine will slow down and stop forever.
William S. BurroughsWe are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
William S. BurroughsMan must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand.
William S. BurroughsI detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.
William S. BurroughsIt is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter
William S. Burroughs