More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
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. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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.
