Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?

- Brion Gysin

Man is a bad animal.

- Brion Gysin

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, n…

- Brion Gysin

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

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and…

- Brion Gysin

Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?' is all that ever h…

- Brion Gysin

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

- Brion Gysin

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

- Brion Gysin

The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of thes…

- Brion Gysin