Drug Quotes by William S. Burroughs

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

— William S. Burroughs

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

— William S. Burroughs

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

— William S. Burroughs

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

— William S. Burroughs

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong.…

— William S. Burroughs

The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near…

— William S. Burroughs

For instance, they [The Federal Narcotics Bureau ] give out that marijuana is a harmful and habit-forming drug, and it simply isn't.…

— William S. Burroughs

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

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

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

The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are…

— William S. Burroughs

The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to…

— William S. Burroughs

I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or…

— William S. Burroughs