Quotes by Burroughs, William S.

A functioning police state needs no police. >>

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill othe >>

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge eg >>

Quotations about Words

It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the >>

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from whi >>

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brin >>

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.