I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLove? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn’t make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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. BURROUGHSThere’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHow long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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. BURROUGHSI’m creating an imaginary — it’s always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS