Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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. 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. 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. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
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. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere isn’t a feeling you can get on drugs that you can’t get without drugs.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSilence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe face of evil is always the face of total need.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
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. BURROUGHSLife is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS