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.

Quote by William S Burroughs

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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

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...

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.

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.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas,...

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas,...

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

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

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

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two...

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's...

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's...

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker