Quotes from William S. Burroughs

when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Language is a virus from outer space.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.