Queer

by William S. Burroughs

The rudeness of many Americans depressed him, a rudeness based on a solid ignorance of the whole concept of manners and on the proposition that for social purposes all people are more or less equal and interchangeable.

“Since I can’t change my mind about you, I will have to change my mind about other things.”

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Stupid people can learn a language quick and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.