Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion. William S. Burroughs machines political organization Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism. William S. Burroughs destruction body doe The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control. William S. Burroughs machines purpose danger Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. William S. Burroughs exorcism shamanism book You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. William S. Burroughs cat real looks Modern man has lost the option of silence. William S. Burroughs modern silence men I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness. William S. Burroughs flesh age looks Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. William S. Burroughs viruses growing book When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak. William S. Burroughs movement talking people We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness. William S. Burroughs settings consciousness world Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road. William S. Burroughs powerful knowing war I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area. William S. Burroughs addiction would-be firsts I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union. William S. Burroughs magic design circles I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing. William S. Burroughs clothes taken years Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness. William S. Burroughs naked madness lunch Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme. William S. Burroughs outcast beats generations I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S. Burroughs god religion thinking It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter William S. Burroughs independent quality fall Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell. William S. Burroughs luck law people Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido. William S. Burroughs veins feet dirty
