Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
William S. BurroughsExorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.
William S. BurroughsHe who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.
William S. BurroughsThe American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.
William S. BurroughsI am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.
William S. BurroughsTo be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.
William S. Burroughs