miss cupcake calls in early morning and feeds me eggs and muffins, while my new sofa arrives, well it's second hand but it looks great, my lounge makes me look respectable now, and i dress respectable, i think i'm going through a respectable phase, all i need is a respectable girl and i'll be set., as long as we don't have to have respectable sex i'lll make it. it's the dawning of a new era, post jake or pj meaning post jake, seeing as my responsibilities have dramatically changed. these are the pj days and my re invention into a respectable citizen is occurring by stealth, soon i will blend in with all the other law abiding citizens, just like an operative undercover blends in to his mission, i will tell you all about my adventures in the world outside, the respectable one, the one where there are no mind altering substances or magick. i will conduct myself with the greatest of respect and offer the most acceptable opinions, i will conform to the general consensus instead of swimming against it, captain mission will adopt a new name, a name like, err lets see, gareth and i will drive my responsible car at responsible speeds listening to radio national and some bach on cd.


ah i do miss william burroughs, i was listening to him last night talking about the war on drugs, it was prophetic, he is a hip priest, very smart and way ahead of his time, he is my fave writer and i miss his unique ways. i met him once in west berlin, i heard him read from 'cities of the red night' and afterwards he shook my hand, he said, 'i like a man who can shoot straight.'
' i said, 'i'm not a shooter, i like explosions.'
looking me in the eye, he smiled wryly, and went on to shake some one else's hand. yeah william burroughs had a huge influence over my writing life, he was a revolutionary artist, and he kept his sense of humour till the end.i liked hunter s thompson to, for the same reason but i never got to meet him.



A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
William S. Burroughs

A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
William S. Burroughs

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
William S. Burroughs

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.
William S. Burroughs

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs

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

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs

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

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
William S. Burroughs

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
William S. Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
William S. Burroughs

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.
William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
William S. Burroughs



Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
William S. 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 S. Burroughs

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
William S. Burroughs

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William S. Burroughs

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
William S. Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
William S. Burroughs

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.
William S. Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.
William S. Burroughs

The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.
William S. Burroughs

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
William S. Burroughs

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
William S. Burroughs

I once met the greatest visionary thinker of our times and his name was Captain Mission.
William S. Burroughs