William S. Burroughs

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#architects #artists #change #fact #implement

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#friends #friendship #friendship

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#designed #his #man #more #present

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#funny

The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#dreams

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#life

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#blazing #blue #burning #cat #eyes

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#photography

As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#law #judgement

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

— William S. Burroughs

#city #dead #death #radio #william