35 Quotes by William Burroughs

Oh be careful! There they go again!" said the old queen as his string broke spilling his balls over the floor.... "Stop them will you, James, you worthless old shit! Don't just stand there and let the master's balls roll into the coal-bin!

Unquestionably, this drug is is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the scenes in Naked Lunch directly to the use of cannabis.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

The name's Clem Williamson Snide. I am a private asshole.

Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a scalpel across the room into the patient and then make his entrance as a ballet dancer. His speed was incredible: "I don't give them time to die", he would say. Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage. "Fucking undisciplined cells!" he would snarl, advancing on the tumor like a knife-fighter.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

Exterminate all rational thought

Man has sold his soul for time, language, tools, weapons, and dominance.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.