As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAs soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI’m definitely antiscientist because I feel that science represents a conspiracy to impose as the real and only universe, the universe of scientists themselves – they’re reality-addicts, they’ve got to have things so real so they can get their hands on it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSArtists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPanic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhat a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.
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. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS