A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you cut into the present the future leaks out.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe simplest questions are the most difficult.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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. BURROUGHSIn 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. 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. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPolitical 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. BURROUGHSOpen your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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