More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Language is a virus from outer space.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
