William S. Burroughs

Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand. It was my other hand.

Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client

A functioning police state needs no police.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative

You see control can never be a means to any practical end. ... Control can never be a means to anything but more control ... like Junk.