It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters. — 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
My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I… — 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
