America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
William Burroughs

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
William Burroughs

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
William Burroughs

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER."
William Burroughs

The reasonable desire of all of us is that we should have the collective affairs of the world managed by suitably equipped groups of the most interested, Intelligent and devoted people and that their activities should be subjugated to a free, open, watchful criticism restrained from making spasmodic interruptions but powerful enough to modify or supersede without haste or delay whatever is weakening or unsatisfactory in the general direction.
H. G. Wells

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