William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

"I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host."

William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."

William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs