Everywhere You Look - Britain, The States,

I Believe In The Power Of The Imagination To Remake The World, To Release The Truth Within Us, To Hold Back The Night, To Transcend Death, To Charm Motorways, To Ingratiate Ourselves With Birds, To Enlist The Confidences Of Madmen.

Enlightened Legislation Or Enlightened Social Activity Of Whatever Kind, Does Play Into The Hands Of People With Agendas Of Their Own. If You Legalize Euthanasia, You Provide A Field Day For People Who Like Killing Other People.

The Entertainment Medium Of Film Is Particularly Tuned To The Present Imaginations Of People At Large. A Lot Of Fiction Is Intensely Nostalgic.

Along With Our Passivity, We're Entering A Profoundly Masochistic Phase Everyone Is A Victim These Days, Of Parents, Doctors, Pharmaceutical Companies, Even Love Itself. And How Much We Enjoy It. Our Happiest Moments Are Spent Trying To Think Up New Varieties Of Victimhood.

Burroughs Called His Greatest Novel Naked Lunch, By Which He Meant It's What You See On The End Of A Fork. He's A Writer Of Enormous Richness Whose Books Are A Kind Of Attempt To Blow Up This Cozy Conspiracy, To Allow Us To See What's On The End Of The Fork . . . The Truth.