Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997
Birthday: February 5
Death: August 2
I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
source: William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext
topic: America, Police, Village, South America, Juvenile Delinquency, Delinquency, Sanitary