Famous quotes containing the words william and/or burroughs:
“Here lies the body of William Jones
Who all his life collected bones,
Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
That universal bone collector,
Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,
And here he lies, all bona fide.”
—Anonymous. “Epitaph on William Jones,” from Eleanor Broughton’s Varia (1925)
“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)