William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs IIwas an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 February 1914
CountryUnited States of America
I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment."
Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
How far would people get in physics if discovery was described as disgusting - "Your formula is disgusting and filthy"? Not very far.
If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
If everyone is to be made responsible for everything they do, you must extend responsibility beyond the level of conscious intention.
O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.
The only possible ethic is to do what one wants to do.