William S. Burroughs

Quotes

• “To 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 wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember ve...”
• “There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this ris...”
• “Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quali...”
• “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in...”
• “Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
• “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
• “when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”