Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. -William S. Burroughs War
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. -William S. Burroughs Technology
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.' -William S. Burroughs Space
Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear. -William S. Burroughs Fear
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. -William S. Burroughs Knowledge
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. -William S. Burroughs Learning
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -William S. Burroughs Change
In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. -William S. Burroughs Space
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. -William S. Burroughs Travel
Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. -William S. Burroughs Wisdom
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. -William S. Burroughs Society
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. -William S. Burroughs Happiness
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought. -William S. Burroughs Freedom
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. -William S. Burroughs Society
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. -William S. Burroughs Business
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. -William S. Burroughs Happiness
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. -William S. Burroughs War
