“For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1986 In hope he is still alive Thanks for… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Consider the impasse of a one God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere since He is already everywhere.… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war… — 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