Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. — 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
I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near… — 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
