We intend to destroy all dogmatic verbal systems.

— William S. Burroughs

Well, as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden.

— William S. Burroughs

What's with the serum?" I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Fenway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything... Turn a massacre into a sex orgy..." Or a joke." Precisely. Arty type... No principles...

— William S. Burroughs

When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

— William S. Burroughs

When you stop growing you start dying.

— William S. Burroughs

When you stop growing you start dying. An addict never stops growing. – A user is a continual state of shrinking and growing in his daily cycle of shot-need for shot completed.

— William S. Burroughs

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

— William S. Burroughs

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

— William S. Burroughs

Why are we here? We're here to go!

— William S. Burroughs

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.

— William S. Burroughs