William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch, Beat writer
Sayings by William S. Burroughs
Language is a virus from outer space.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Rub out the word. Rub out the word.
The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make him a friend.
There are no good or bad drugs. There are only good or bad users.
The word is a virus that creates its own reality.
Artists are the antennae of the race.
Disgust is the appropriate response to the world.
The only way to escape the matrix is to cut yourself off from it.
The war will be won in the streets.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.
The function of the artist is to make the audience dream.
The only way to be truly free is to be yourself.
The most important thing is to keep your mind open.
The future is not what it used to be.
The only way to learn is to do.
The world is a dangerous place, and we are all in it together.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.