If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention. William S. Burroughs Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties. William S. Burroughs Read Quote
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn’t seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts. William S. Burroughs Read Quote
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. William S. Burroughs Read Quote
Most people don’t see what’s going on around them. That’s my principal message to writers: ‘For God’s sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what’s going on around you.’ William S. Burroughs Read Quote
Visual art and writing don’t exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can’t do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. William S. Burroughs Read Quote
