To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.


Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997 (ed. Semiotext, 2001)

William S. Burroughs Quotes

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what...

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what...

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what...

To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what...