William S. Burroughs Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?”

“In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.”

“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”

“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.”

“I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.”

“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.”

“Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.”

“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.'”

“No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.”

“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.”