William Burroughs

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
-William Burroughs

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
-William Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
-William Burroughs

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
-William Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
-William Burroughs

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

Language is a virus from outer space.
-William Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
-William Burroughs

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
-William Burroughs

The face of evil is always the face of total need.
-William Burroughs

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.
-William Burroughs

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
-William Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
-William S. Burroughs

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . love.
-William S. Burroughs