More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Language is a virus from outer space.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
