I lay down and tried to sleep. When I closed my eyes I saw an Oriental — William S. Burroughs

"You are a Shit Spotter. Its satisfying work. ... We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who cant mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite occupying a certain brain area which we may term the RIGHT center. The mark of a basic shit is that he has to be right. And right here we must make a diagnostic distinction between the hard-core virus-occupied shit and a plain, ordinary, mean no-good son of a bitch. Some of these sons of bitches dont cause any trouble at all, just want to be left alone."

"Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. Those individuals who cannot or will not mind their business cling to the victimless-crime concept, equating drug use and private sexual behavior with robbery and murder. If the right to mind ones own business is recognized, the whole shit disposition is untenable and Hell hath no vociferous fury than an endangered parasite."

"The Other Half is the word. The Other Half is an organism. Word is an organism. The presence of the Other Half is a separate organism attached to your nervous system on an air line of words can now be demonstrated experimentally. One of the most common hallucinations of subject during sense withdrawal is the feeling of another body sprawled through the subjects body at an angle...yes quite an angle it is the Other Half worked quite some years on a symbiotic basis. From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word."

"The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldnt you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite."

"Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I dont know what it needs or how to provide for it. Another dream years ago of a human child with eyes on stalks. It is very small, but can walk and talk "Dont you want me?" Again, I dont know how to care for the child. But I am dedicated to protecting and nurturing him at any cost! It is the function of the Guardian to protect hybrids and mutants in the vulnerable stage of infancy."

"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting."