William S. Burroughs
William S. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 February 1914
CountryUnited States of America
Hemingway said: 'It don't come anymore.' So where did it go?
Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk.
A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells...
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.
Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.