"Writers are, in a way, very powerful indeed. They write the script for the reality film. Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levi's to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. Now if writers could get together into a real tight union, we'd have the world right by the words. We could write our own universes, and they would all be as real as a coffee bar or a pair of Levi's or a prom in the Jazz Age. Writers could take over the reality studio. So they must not be allowed to find out that they can make it happen." William Burroughs