William S. Burroughs Quotes on Reality
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A paranoid-schizophrenic is a guy who just found out what's going on.
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Madness is confusion of levels of fact... Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation'. Creative viewing.
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There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
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'Treatment is symptomatic' - which means in the trade there is none.