More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
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.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
