Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I was lying there trying to control the fear. I did not know much about this uremic poisoning. A woman I'd known… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light...” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Consider the impasse of a one God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel… — 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
