More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
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.
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
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.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
