I do spend a great deal of time alone. I'm not very gregarious. I don't like parties and miscellaneous gatherings with no particular purpose. I think parties are largely a mistake. The bigger they are the more mistaken they are.
William S. BurroughsI escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.
William S. BurroughsAll writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?
William S. BurroughsIf you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.
William S. Burroughs