William S. BurroughsThinkers

Creative observation is the idea that nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Education is, in its ideal, concerned with the knowledge of values rather than of facts.

Education is tasked with achieving the knowledge of values rather than the knowledge of facts.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict... those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Modern man is man who has lost the option of silence.

Paranoid is what you call someone who has all the facts.

A Paranoid is what you call someone who knows a little of what's going on.

A Photograph has something obscene and sinister, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

Pleasure is perhaps only relief.

Richard Nixon is a man that had the morals of a private detective.