A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope forother people… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. — 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
