Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
-
-
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I 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. BURROUGHS -
Open your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
If 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. BURROUGHS -
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else’s ass.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS