William Burroughs
William Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs IIwas an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth5 February 1914
CitySt. Louis, MO
Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.
I dont care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.