All William S. Burroughs Quotes
- Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute… Acute
- Too perfect to be sexually attractive. Attractive
- You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. Cat
- God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any direction, is the… Any
- Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… Agony
- There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. Desire
- When you stop growing you start dying. Dying
- If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish… Addict
- Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable. Adjective
- Open your mind and let the pictures out Funny
- Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a… Data
- I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never… Beyond
- I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed… Began
- A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. All
- I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous… Anonymous
- Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. Alive
- Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have. Caution
- O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time... Beat Generation
- Death needs time for what it kills to grow in. Death
- There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a… Areas
- He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells... Boy
- If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future. Avoid
- A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and… Any
- America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The… America
- The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. Blackmailing