35 Quotes by William Burroughs

We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that alien medium. The water we live in is Time. That alien medium we glimpse beyond time is Space. And that is where we are going.

Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.

When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness & madness if you want to stretch the word.

To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made.

To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''

Dream long and dream hard enoughYou will come to knowDreaming can make it so . . .

So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.