After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 6
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 5
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 5
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 4
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 2
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 1
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. . . . I did absolutely nothing. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.". William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S. Burroughs More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Language is a virus from outer space. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. William S. Burroughs American Writer More William S. Burroughs Quotes 0