More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
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.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
