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

Quote by William S Burroughs

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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...

Language is a virus from outer space.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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

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

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course...

In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course...

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people...

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything...

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...

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams,...

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams,...

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?