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More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
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.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.