William S. Burroughs

"Abstraction is the deadly product of our civilization."

"You are in a place called Paris you are not there."

"Immortality consists largely of boredom."

"There is nothing here now but psychic circuitry."

"The world belongs to those who are bold enough to take it."

"Control needs time. Control feeds on time."

"Words are just a form of hypnosis, they always have been."

"I'm a prophet of the obvious, I just do it better than others."

"To create meaning, you must be dangerous."

"I haven't lost anything, I just can't find it."

"The human larynx is an evolved organ."

"There is no escape from the American experience."

"Society is a gas, faith is a solid, experience is a liquid."

"I write because I feel like I have something to say."

"Rage is an energy."

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

"The purpose of writing is to make money and get women."

"In my experience there is only one motivating force: desire."

"The dead have their revenge."

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted."

"The greatest con job ever pulled was making people believe they have to work."

"When you're writing, you're in a state of mind."

"I would say the most important thing is consciousness."

"Hate is a motivating force."

"The past is a foreign country."

"Language is a virus."

"The way out is the way in."

"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead."

"I am primarily interested in power."

"The job is to make language work."