Quotes About Gysin

#1. ...There is no friendship in the desert, there is no love. The Sahara only knows allies and accomplices. [Hopkins quoting B. Gysin's The Process]

John Hopkins

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Brion Gysin

#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. 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

#8. Do you think that much power comes without sacrifice? Did you think you could become you without leaving something, without leaving me, behind?

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Robert G. Ingersoll

#10. We need a visionary leader with very big and bold ideas. This is a very big, very bold country.

Newt Gingrich

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Elend: I kind of lost track of time ...
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. 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

#15. You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.

Sarah Dessen

#16. Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and cops and robbers, children were now playing army vs. Taliban.

Malala Yousafzai

#17. 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

#18. If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.

Stanley Williams

#19. Dark waters run deep.

Dawn Kurtagich

#20. Man is a bad animal....

Brion Gysin

#21. Writing is fifty years behind painting.

Brion Gysin