Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
William S. Burroughs, fully William Seward Burroughs II
American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Painter and Spoken Word Performer
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
"You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere."
"You sometimes wake up from a dream and think, "Thank God, I didn't really do that!" Reconstructing a period of blackout you think, "My God, did I really do that?" The line between saying and thinking is blurred. Did you say it or just think it?"
"You see control can never be a means to any practical end. ? Control can never be a means to anything but more control ? like Junk."
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"
"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer."