More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
Language is a virus from outer space.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
