William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

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

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs
William S. 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 S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

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.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

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
William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

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

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

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.