“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so... — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“(A boat in lake.) I was afraid it would turn over at high speed. Dreams less and less interesting.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Thanks for the American dream, to vulgarize and falsify until the bare lies shine through. Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed… — 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
