William S. Burroughs

The only way to be truly original is to be truly insane.

The only way to understand something is to experience it.

I'm not a teacher. I'm a student.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

There are no innocent bystanders. What are these people doing in the way?

The junk merchant observes the land. Junk is not a product like other products. Junk is a way of life.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive.

I am a walking, talking, breathing, living, dying, eating, shitting, fucking, dreaming, thinking, feeling, being.

The only sane way to live is to be insane.

I am a criminal. I am a writer. I am a junkie. I am a human being.

The only way to be a hero is to be a villain.

The only way to be free is to be dead.

I am a vampire. I am a junkie. I am a writer.

The only way to escape the past is to embrace it.

I am a ghost. I am a writer. I am a junkie.

The only way to find yourself is to lose yourself.

The only way to create is to destroy.

After a sex experience, you are either a man or a woman. Not both.

Artists are there to disturb the peace.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul will grow sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.