Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter… — 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 Image
“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 Image
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
