~JoanLee

quotes from a damn wise old junkie.

from naked lunch: " a wise old queen once told me, 'some people are shits darling.'..I was never able to forget it."

"I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it"

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape"

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

"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity"

"The only possible ETHIC is to do what one wants to do."

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

"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage"

"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war"

"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. "

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

all quotes from one of my favorite authors and one of the most forward thinkers of his day..the beat to end all beats.. William S. Burroughs~