Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.

[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

There's no place for impractical dreamers around here.

We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].