More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
