Brion Gysin Quotes

#1. The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because ... " and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

Allen Ginsberg

#2. When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.

William S. Burroughs

#3. OFFICERS OF OUR GUERILLA MUST BE POETS.
THE AREA OF POETRY MUST BE CONSTANTLY RE-CREATED.
- Brion Gysin, Guerrilla Conditions, nd.

Brion Gysin

#4. Us were glad to see her get married,

Jude Deveraux

#5. I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career.

Brion Gysin

#6. Some trillions of years ago a sloppy, dirty giant flicked grease from his fingers. One of those gobs of grease is our universe on its way to the floor. Splat!

Brion Gysin

#7. Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

Ayumi Hamasaki

#8. The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.

Chelsea Handler

#9. There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.

Marsha Norman

#10. You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

Brion Gysin

#11. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.

Sidney Poitier

#12. As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

Brion Gysin

#13. When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.

Brion Gysin

#14. It made him feel invisible - not that he wanted to feel anything else.

Margaret Atwood

#15. I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

Brion Gysin

#16. If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Jack Weatherford

#17. And the sad happiness said, You know precisely when you're going to finish.

Andrea Seigel

#18. It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

Ryan Lochte

#19. I've traveled. All over. I've never seen anything like you. How could anything be put together like you? Do you know how beautiful you are? Have you looked at yourself?'
'I'm looking now.

Toni Morrison

#20. Some things were never meant to be recycled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#21. What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

Brion Gysin

#22. Man is a bad animal....

Brion Gysin

#23. Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Brion Gysin