burroughs

"I could write all the speeches and ultimatums of one government with answering machines and ultimatums of another and of course put on war recordings when the order came through the channels"

"play the soundtrack back and the image will rise out of the tape recorder - slow-motion sound track is flesh"

"vast music in the throat of god"

"a vibrating silence"

"they both recorded a short text then the two tapes were cut into short sections and spliced in together. this produces a strong erotic reaction."

"you will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk"

"splice in your body sounds with the body sounds of your best friend and see how familiar he gets"

"let the machines talk and argue"

"the voice of your eyes is deepter than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands"

"When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. [...] A user is in [a] continual state of shrinking and growing in his daily cycle of shot-need for shot completed" (xxxix)

"Always build a John up. If he has any sort of body at all, say 'Oh, don't ever hurt me.' A John is a different kind of sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on the alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken. But a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself, too" (13)

"You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere" (18)

"Gains was aware of his talent of invisibility, and at times he felt the need for holding himself together so he would at least have enough flesh to put a needle in" (46)

"An agent is trained to deny his agent identity by asserting his cover story. So why not use psychic jiu-jitsu and go along with him? Suggest that his cover story is his identity and that he has no other. His agent identity becomes unconscious, that is, out of his control; and you can dig it with drugs and hypnosis" (27)

"The best stuff is extracted from the blood of schizos; so schizophrenia is likely a drug psychosis. They got a metabolic connection, a Man Within you might say" (32)

the junkie has "complete absence of nostalgia in these memories" (33)

"They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people should to only be prevented from learning to read, but from learning to talk as well. No need to prevent them from thinking; nature has done that" (43)

“the more you run the tapes through and cut them up the less power they will have cut the prerecordings into air into thin air” (340).