There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSMan is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere are no innocent bystanders.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe nonconformist here may be “beat down” by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSI 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. BURROUGHSYour mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
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. BURROUGHSThanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSAfter a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSEvery word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSSociety is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS