More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
