"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact." -
-- William s. burroughs
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
There is the pleasurable orgasm, like a rising sales graph, and there is the unpleasurable orgasm, slumping ominously like the Dow Jones in 1929.
To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."
Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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 is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
Musicians, addicts, writers, artists, midgets, artistic minds, musicians,transvestites, happy people, young, old, smokers, the lonely and the lost.