William S. Burroughs

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#writer

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

— William S. Burroughs

#knows #little #paranoid #someone #who

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#murder #death

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#risk #love

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#frightening #only #people #silence #who

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#drugs #eating

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#believed #change #desperation #drastic #drastic change

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#provocative #business

Language is a virus from outer space ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#language

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#responsibility #voyeurism #innocence