Famous quotes containing the words william and/or burroughs:
“His role was as the gentle teacher, the logical, compassionate, caring and articulate teacher, who inspired you so that you wanted to please him more than life itself.”
—Carol Lawrence, U.S. singer, star of West Side Story. Conversations About Bernstein, p. 172, ed. William Westbrook Burton, Oxford University Press (1995)
“America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)