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.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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.
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.
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.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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.
