William S. Burroughs World Quotations

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

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.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.

There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.

I have no message to give the politicians of the world. They're all completely addicted to promiscuous verbalization and I'm quite sure they would not be at all interested in hearing about cut-ups and hieroglyphics and still less interested to hear about silence.