William S. Burroughs Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fear, Men, Nuts

  "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks".

• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Real, Home

  "Strange cats" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 1995.

• I don't go into hysterics or anything, but I look around for something to smash it with. I used to live out in the country when I first moved here, and there were a lot of centipedes in the house, and I set out to kill them all. A program of genocide. I'd wake up in the middle of the night, and I'd know there's a centipede in this room. And there always was. And I couldn't go to sleep until I killed it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Country, Sleep, Night

  William S. Burroughs (1992). “Esquire: The Magazine for Men”

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