The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if… — 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
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Ever see a hot shot hit, kid? I saw the Gimp catch one in Philly. We rigged his room with a one-way… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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
Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. — 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
The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. — 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
