Bystanders Quote by William S. Burroughs

“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

“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

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

— William S. Burroughs

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

When you stop growing you start dying.

— William S. Burroughs

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not .…

— William S. Burroughs

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.

— William S. Burroughs

“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

“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

“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

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

— William S. Burroughs

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.

— William S. Burroughs