As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You see, control can never be a means to any practical end...It can never be a means to anything but more control...like… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a… — 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
