A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

Quote by William S Burroughs

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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the...

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want...

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want...

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators...

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators...

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of...

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of...

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed...

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed...

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with...

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with...

Language is a virus from outer space.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind...

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind...

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.