William S. Burroughs Quotes

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

When you grow up with a significant amount of trauma, you are realizing it as you get older, and you're realizing the ways you can recover from that trauma. The things that I have witnessed and that I have been through, it's going to take a lifetime to undo.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

When you are sick of your sickness you will cease to be sick.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

[Paul Scheer] was kind of pretending to not be as sick as he was. And then we almost pulled into this spa when I finally called it and said, "I'm very ill. We need to go home." And he said, "I am, too." He said that he wasn't going to do his treatments, he was going to - by the way, these are great problems to have - he was going to lie in the men's relaxation room in between throwing up. I was like, "This is insane. We're sick, and we need to just acknowledge it. And it sucks that it happened on my birthday, but let's get back into bed."

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "—three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "—four.