Miggs Burroughs Quotes

What if the most important moment in your life is this one? Can you handle the power it gives you to choose how you will spend the next one? ~ Miggs Burroughs

I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open. ~ Augusten Burroughs

In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling. ~ William S. Burroughs

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host. ~ William S. Burroughs

What a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish. ~ William S. Burroughs

Unquestionably, this drug is is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the scenes in Naked Lunch directly to the use of cannabis. ~ William Burroughs

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

I love you, she said, and I knew she meant it because she spoke the words from the heart at the center of her chest. This, at least, had not been left behind at the hospital. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise. ~ Dillon Burroughs

You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

The one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point. ~ Augusten Burroughs

It was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards. ~ William Gibson

The old writer couldn't write anymore because he had reached the end of words, the end of what can be done with words. ~ William S. Burroughs

When I turned thirty, I briefly flirted with the notion of undergoing sexual reassignment surgery. Once again, I was ready for a big change in my life. Plus, I was having a really difficult time meeting gay guys who didn't seem gay yet were still caustic. So I figured, as a woman I would have a whole new pool of men from which to fish.
I decided that I would probably opt for the self-lubricating vagioplasty option. ... the plus side of this vagina was that it was, like the name implies, self-lubricating. So I wouldn't need to give myself away and reach for the K-Y. On the downside, it was always self-lubricating, so you had to wear a maxipad at all times, even at funerals. ~ Augusten Burroughs

My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It's simply the perfect amount of something. ~ Nicholas Burroughs

SEEING THE TRUTH MEANS looking at everything for the first time, every time. ~ Augusten Burroughs

A junkie spends half his life waiting. ~ William S. Burroughs

Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently, as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods. It is the sweetest, ripest hour of the day. And as the hermit's evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols. ~ John Burroughs

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. ~ William S. Burroughs

And she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Pissed-off people need back rubs and they also need gym memberships. ~ Augusten Burroughs

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous. ~ William S. Burroughs

I have loved the feel of the grass under my feet, and the sound of the running streams by my side. The hum of the wind in the tree-tops has always been good music to me, and the face of the fields has often comforted me more than the faces of men. ~ John Burroughs

Truth is not an opinion. It's a force like gravity. It's the most valuable substance known to man. ~ Augusten Burroughs

Look at the immigrants coming to America looking for a better life. What they got now? If they had the misfortune to be successful one of the most gruesome cultural straightjackets in history. ~ William S. Burroughs

You see, control can never be a means to any practical end ... It can never be a means to anything but more control ... like junk.. ~ William S. Burroughs

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

Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time. ~ Augusten Burroughs

So glorious does love transfigure its object"~Tarzan ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

He kisses the D.S.'s hand thrusting his fingers into his mouth (the D.S. must feel his toothless gums) complaining he has lost teeth "inna thervith". "Please Boss Man. I'll wipe your ass, I'll wash out your dirty condoms, I'll polish your shoes with the oil on my nose ... ~ William S. Burroughs

What's with the serum?"
I don't know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man's not to be trusted. Might do almost anything ... Turn a massacre into a sex orgy ... "
Or a joke."
Precisely. Arty type ... No principles ... ~ William S. Burroughs

I am prone to envy. It is one of my three default emotions, the others being greed and rage. I have also experienced compassion and generosity, but only fleetingly and usually while drunk, so I have little memory. ~ Augusten Burroughs