Burroughs Quotes

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

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!

All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.