Quotes by : William S. Burroughs

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours....

All political movements are basically anti-creative — since a political movement is a form of war.....

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents,....

I don’t spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by....

We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thing.....

Sodomy is as old as the human species.

That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have....