The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered… — 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
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The essence of White Supremacy is this: they are people who want to keep things as they are. That their children's children's… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We have a great elaborate machine which I feel has to be completely dismantled - in order to do that we need… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the… — 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
