All William S. Burroughs Quotes
- Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. Beg
- No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. Anyone
- Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. Areas
- Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. Arbitrary
- The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do. Ethic
- Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. All
- Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. All
- My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. Cat
- You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. Any
- Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is… Any
- The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians:… Care
- Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. Inspirational
- Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. American
- Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. Control
- Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. Control
- You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. Allies
- An addict never stops growing. Stupider. Addict
- If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. Beyond
- In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. Boredom
- It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other… Advice
- Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat. Attracted
- The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. Body
- The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues. All
- Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. Any
- Changes... can only be effected by alterations in the original. The only thing not prerecorded in a prerecorded universe are the prerecordings themselves. The copies… Alteration