I am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI am getting so far out one day I won’t come back at all.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBlack magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI don’t have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don’t mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSHome 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. BURROUGHSHustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYour knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMost of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou can’t fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhether 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. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS