If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs Yes, for all of us in the Shakespeare Squadron, writing is just that: not an escape from reality, but an attempt to change reality. William S. Burroughs writingreality By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge. William S. Burroughs flaws The self is like a pimping blackmailing chauffeur who gets you from here to there on word lines. William S. Burroughs chauffeurslinesself Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. William S. Burroughs cathatestupid My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company. William S. Burroughs lonelinessrealcharacter The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus. William S. Burroughs menwarmoving In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up. William S. Burroughs mexicowishdream Home 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. Burroughs wanthomemoving The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals. William S. Burroughs criminalspurposewriting A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too. William S. Burroughs want-himtakengiving America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. William S. Burroughs landamericadirty Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa's face. William S. Burroughs stormrock-and-rollrocks And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not. William S. Burroughs catanimalyears Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. William S. Burroughs coffeehippiesex Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to. William S. Burroughs exhibitsvirtuehumility My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually. William S. Burroughs weaknesscapacitymatter The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. William S. Burroughs brainmenthinking The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government. William S. Burroughs weedbeautifulfall I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers. William S. Burroughs informersold-fashionedpersons You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. William S. Burroughs doctorsdrugfunny
