There isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
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. 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. BURROUGHSMost of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIn the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSParanoia is just having the right information.
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. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS