Burroughs Quotes

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Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Paranoia is just having the right information.

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

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters.

With 'Avatar,' I thought, Forget all these chick flicks and do a classic guys' adventure movie, something in the Edgar Rice Burroughs mold, like John Carter of Mars - a soldier goes to Mars.

Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American.

I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!

[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Norman Mailer thinks William Burroughs is a genius, which I think is ludicrous beyond words. I don't think William Burroughs has an ounce of talent.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

Atheism is not a matter of the mind

Let us not take what we eat for granted

Prayer is not about a list

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker

We are not saved by good deeds

Many overlook the fact that Jesus was homeless. He did not only teach the poor

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people

God does not remove us from all harm

Abandon all nations, the planet drifts to random insect doom.

God's love for others does not stop at the border

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more

There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more

The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs

Our worship of God is not a part of our lives

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas

Let us not question whether God is there

The actions you take today not only impact you