When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren’t cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
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. BURROUGHSSmash the control images. Smash the control machine.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
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. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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. 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. BURROUGHS