There’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere’s no place for impractical dreamers around here.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThere is no line between the ‘real world’ and ‘world of myth and symbol.’ Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSYou must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSThe world is now a virus.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWe must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBe just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSOpen your mind and let the pictures out
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSIf after having been exposed to someone’s presence you feel as if you’ve lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSLife 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. BURROUGHSOnce the law starts asking questions, there’s no stopping them.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSBy the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
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. BURROUGHSNo one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSWhen you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHSPeople have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS