William S. Burroughs

"The great enemy of freedom is ignorance."

"You cannot create conscience."

"Confusion has never stopped me."

"I create my own reality."

"The American Dream is a nightmare."

"There are no innocents in the modern age."

"Language shapes consciousness."

"Apocalypse is not an event to come, but a permanent condition."

"The future belongs to the insane."

"Nothing happens until something moves."

"I'm like a man who has never had sex before."

"Flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood."

"The cut-up method is not random."

"Every man has the right to err."

"I have always maintained that existence is comedy."

"The real problem is always elsewhere."

"I am interested in the fact that the more you explain the less I understand."

"Some people are the same everywhere; they do not see it."

"I'll never get out of this world alive."

"There is a cosmic joke and we are on the receiving end."

"The true secret is to find the common ground."

"Time is a human invention."

"I cannot endorse anyone who suggests control."

"The novel is dead."

"Everything is connected in this vast digital web."

"I'm an old writer and I have no time to waste."

"Change is the only constant I trust."

"Paranoia is just awareness."

"The worst thing you can do is bore people."

"Once you have sampled the pleasure of drugs you have damaged your life."