More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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.
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.
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
