A functioning police state needs no police.
— William S. Burroughs
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
Language is a virus from outer space.
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
