Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
More William S. Burroughs Quotes
-
-
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
The world is now a virus.
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 -
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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 -
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
As soon as you know you are in prison, you have a possibility to escape.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS -
The 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. BURROUGHS -
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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 -
Once the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS






