My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: writing write loneliness characters writer company



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I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute,

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: cats



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Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce.

William S. Burroughs


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Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

William S. Burroughs


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As I was walking past Tony Pastor's I saw Pat, the lesbian bouncer, throw a drunken young sailor out into the street. The sailor said, "That place is full of fucking queers." He swung at the air and nearly fell on his face, then he staggered away, muttering to himself.

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: drunk



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For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like some people who cannot vomit despite horrible nausea, she lay there unable to die, resisting death as she had resisted life, frozen with resentment of process and change.

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: resentment nausea death-of-a-loved-one



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Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." The expression is not subject to definition because, if you don't "dig" what it means, no one can ever tell you.

William S. Burroughs

Stichwörter: humor truth-telling junkie burroughs reality-check



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The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell
by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy,
insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

William S. Burroughs


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I was lying there trying to control the fear. I did not know much about this uremic poisoning. A woman I'd known slightly in Texas had died of it after drinking a bottle of beer ever hour, night and day, for two weeks.

William S. Burroughs


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Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.

William S. Burroughs


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