Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Quote by William S Burroughs

Topics: William S Burroughs Quotes

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes...

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to...

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an...

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an...

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with...

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with...

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in...

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in...

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall...

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up...

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up...

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

No worse fate can befall a man than to be surrounded by traitor souls.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

He was a genuine defector. Yurchenko was a real traitor.

He was a genuine defector. Yurchenko was a real traitor.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is...

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is...