Quote: Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. [William Burroughs]
Quote: No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. [William Burroughs]
Quote: His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. [William Burroughs]
Quote: This is a war universe. War all the time [William Burroughs]
Quote: That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. [William Burroughs]
Quote: You are happy when you are functioning. [William Burroughs]
Quote: A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. [William Burroughs]
Quote: A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. [William Burroughs]
Quote: In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. [William Burroughs]
Quote: After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. [William Burroughs]
Quote: 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 Burroughs]
Quote: Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Anything that can be don e chemically can be done by other means. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. [William Burroughs]
Quote: How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. [William Burroughs]
Quote: I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. [William Burroughs]
Quote: In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. [William Burroughs]
Quote: Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. [William Burroughs]
Quote: The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. [William Burroughs]