William S. Burroughs Long Quotations

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it.

Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.

dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so...

Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.