If the soft machine works, don't fix it. If it works, don't fix it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The… — 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
For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are… — 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
If all individuals were conditioned to machine efficiency in the performance of their duties there would have to be at least one… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think if a writer is not endeavoring to expand and alter consciousness in himself and in his readers, he is not… — 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
