More quotes by William S. Burroughs

"There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve."
"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on."
"To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…"
"when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow."