Inspirational Quotations by William S. Burroughs

  • Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    From Issue 401
  • Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
    From Issue 406
  • 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.
    From Issue 416
  • There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
    From Issue 418

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