More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.