More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
