William Burroughs Quotes on People (5 Quotes)

I think that Richard Nixon will go down in history as a true folk hero, who struck a vital blow to the whole diseased concept of the revered image and gave the American virtue of irreverence and skepticism back to the people.

The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

I feel that this life is sort of a penal colony. People have goofed or we wouldn't be here.

When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. No fire no intensity no life. There is madness madness if you want to stretch the word.