When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe 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 face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDo not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSDesperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS