Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.
William S. BurroughsIf you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.
William S. BurroughsI don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. BurroughsRevolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
William S. BurroughsFor years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.
William S. BurroughsIt is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
William S. Burroughs