Given certain known factors in an equation and the equation comprising a situation of absolute need - any form of need -… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope.… — 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
