Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
-
-
There are no innocent bystanders, What are they doing there in the first place?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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. BURROUGHS -
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
You can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS