As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute, & if they are cute they rapidly outgrow it — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Control never be a means to any practical end. It can never be a means to anything but more control… Like punk.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
“It is not the intensity but the duration of pain that breaks the will to resist.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share
