I may write only what I know in space: I am that I am. — Brion Gysin

"I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career."

"Writing is fifty years behind painting."

"Writers dont own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? Your very own words, indeed! And who are you?"

"He covered tons of paper with his words and made them his very own words... he branded them like cattle he rustled out there on the free ranges of Literature... Used by another writer who was attempting cut-ups, one single word of Burroughs vocabulary could ruin a whole barrel of good everyday words, run the literary rot right through them. One sniff of that prose and youd say, Why, thats a Burroughs."

"I view life as a fortuitous collaboration ascribable to the fact that one finds oneself at the right place at the same time."

"I Am the Artist when I am Open. When I am closed I am Brion Gysin."