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William S. Burroughs Quotes

«This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.»
«All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you by right. It is time to demand what belongs to you.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: discoveries
«No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.»
«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.»
«I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to know that there'll be no interruptions and I've got eight hours is exactly what I want -- yeah, just paradise.»
«When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.»
«I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: incestuous
«We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.»
«Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand, to make the Pass.»
«It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.»
Author: William S. Burroughs | Keywords: doubtful, libido

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