All William S. Burroughs Quotes
- To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I… Alien
- The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers Control
- There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk,… Crippling
- I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can… Animal
- The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to… Ahead
- There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? Bystanders
- when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow. Become Death
- I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. Absence
- If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic… Affords
- Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born. Born
- The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 American
- danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal. Biologic
- Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve. Considerable
- Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. Dead
- This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles,… All
- Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes. Answer
- Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget. Elephants
- There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. Business
- in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen Accidents
- what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid… Bearing
- he asked if i wouldn't like to live completely without problems, say in greece maybe, nice climate, everything provided? i say: "when we find out… Action
- as soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape. Escape
- dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so... Dream
- If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data. Any
- That old feeling is still in my leaking heart. Feeling