William S. Burroughs was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between February 5, 1914 and August 2, 1997. He/she became 83 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 35 quotes who is written / told by William.
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole"
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on"
"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war"
"Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage"
"The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do"
"Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts"
"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine"
"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing"
"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief"
"Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror"
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted"
"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"
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"
"The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing"
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values"
"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical"
"Language is a virus from outer space"
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy"
"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"
"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality"
"I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all"
"Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside"
"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity"
"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape"
"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective"
"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact"
"Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means"
"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"
"A functioning police state needs no police"
"A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering"
"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. 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"
"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks"
"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits"
