Quote #19

Kerouac (editing Naked Lunch): Bill, what is all this stuff about young naked boys being hanged in limestone caves? Burroughs: No idea. I know I'm some kind of interplanetary agent but I don't think my signals are decoding properly.

More from William S. Burroughs

  1. Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
  2. Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.
  3. America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream…
  4. Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece.
  5. A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on.
  6. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
  7. It would be certainly a very foolish thing: try paint the Internet, start making oil-on-canvas paintings out of the computer world.
  8. General procedure: Read and learn all you can about problem. Look at problem from a point of zero preconception. Devise variations and alte…

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