William S. Burroughs Quotes

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

I regret my disbelief in God.

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

I think Easterners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their mind about God, and I think Westerners have to be dragged kicking and screaming to their heart center about God.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.

[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.

It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.