William S. Burroughs

"There is always some specific reason to hate America."

"Your secrets are your prisons."

"The face of evil is always the face of total beauty."

"I never wanted to be a writer."

"Thought is action."

"Language is a virus from outer space."

"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

"When you stop growing you start dying."

"Control is always exercised through control of the language."

"A functioning police state needs no police."

"Habit is the death of adventure."

"The more you have the more you are occupied. The less you have the more free you are."

"Do not mistake me for other people."

"Censorship like charity should begin at home."

"Nothing to do with this world."

"I am not here for your amusement."

"The only way to win is not to fight."

"Your body is not your own."

"Junk is the ideal product."

"I would say that the level of ignorance is very high."

"Art should be like a limb or organ."

"The true measure of any society is how it treats its weakest."

"Squares are afraid of people who are not afraid of them."

"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change."

"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller."

"Thinking is just scratching the surface of knowledge."

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"Life is like a cut-up novel."

"You cannot will yourself to have discipline."

"Organized crime rules by force and operates through drugs."