William S. Burroughs Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old William S. Burroughs quotes, William S. Burroughs sayings, and William S. Burroughs proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. 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
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. William S. Burroughs
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. 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. William S. Burroughs
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. William S. Burroughs
A paranoid is someone who has all the facts. William S. Burroughs
Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. William S. Burroughs
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. William S. Burroughs
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. William S. Burroughs
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive. William S. Burroughs
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ... Elegance, grace, delicacy, beauty, and a lack of self-consciousness: a creature who knows he is cute soon isn't. William S. Burroughs
The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all. The colors are there, but there is no image, nothing. William S. Burroughs
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. William S. Burroughs
In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal. William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. William S. Burroughs
The photo collage is a way to travel that must be used with skill and precision if we are to arrive... The collage as a flexible hieroglyph language of juxtaposition: A collage makes a statement. William S. Burroughs
The Planet drifts to random insect doom. William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. William S. Burroughs
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. William S. Burroughs
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business William S. Burroughs
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. William S. Burroughs