Word Virus Quotes

“Modern man has lost the option of silence.”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“For him, conscious intent was a form of prediction, and prediction is only possible when the status quo has reason to assume it will meet no significant opposition.”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“Now my inspiration but it won’t last and we’ll be just a photograph—i”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“The dichotomy of the gun-toting, substance-abusing queer seeking spiritual refuge might strike some as anticlimactic. But William Burroughs was not what he appeared to be to many of his fans. The work which so many revere as biblical texts in the church of addiction were always seen by the writer himself as cautionary rather than visionary.”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“already, and the fuzz walks in on some newlyweds from Sioux Falls.”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“What you call the history of mankind is the history of my escape plan. I don’t want ‘love.’ I don’t want forgiveness. All I want is out of here.”
― William S. Burroughs, Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader