There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole… — 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
