A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.

Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Paranoia is just having the right information.