Quotes from burroughs william s ii

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Once a junky, always a junky. You can stop using junk, but you are never off after the first habit.

All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame.

Well as, one judge said to the other, "Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary."

Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.

dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so

Junk takes everything and gives nothing but insurance against junk sickness.

Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

Brainwashing, psychotropic drugs, lobotomy, and other more subtle form of psychosurgery; the technocratic control apparatus of the United States has at its fingertips new techniques if which fully exploited could make Orwell's 1984 seem like a benevolent utopia.

I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.