Burroughs

Burroughs may refer to:

  • Burroughs (surname), people and fictional characters
  • The Burroughs, a district of London
  • Burroughs (crater), on Mars
  • 21811 Burroughs, an asteroid
  • Burroughs School (Conway, South Carolina), on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Burroughs Corporation, a maker of adding machines and computers
  • Borroughs (film), a documentary about William S. Burroughs

Famous quotes containing the word burroughs:

    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.
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    —William Burroughs (b. 1914)

    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 Burroughs (b. 1914)