william s burroughs

“ There's no place for impractical dreamers around here. ”

“ Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. ”

“ Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. ”

“ Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer. ”

“ It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve. ”

“ It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. ”

“ I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy. ”

“ Man must get away from verbal forms to attain the consciousness, that which is there to be perceived at hand. ”

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

“ I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. ”