If I knew how much you loved me, I would’ve shot you sooner. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage. William S. Burroughs hipster acting men You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live. William S. Burroughs creating islands writing There's no place for impractical dreamers around here. William S. Burroughs dreamer When you stop growing you start dying. William S. Burroughs growing dying NOTHING happens by coincidence. William S. Burroughs coincidence happens The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. William S. Burroughs juxtaposition skills way He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him. William S. Burroughs body done mind 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 S. Burroughs cat eye beautiful There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer. William S. Burroughs psychics plot writing Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born. William S. Burroughs born knowing might I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it. William S. Burroughs vision feelings moving It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy. William S. Burroughs enough littles If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. William S. Burroughs good-night sleep way Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction. William S. Burroughs fiction There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. William S. Burroughs dream love life 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 S. Burroughs psychics space writing There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs. William S. Burroughs addiction drug feelings People 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 shadow-of-death saying-nothing people You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal. William S. Burroughs quality fake-people meals Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary. William S. Burroughs arbitrary ifs
