More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Language is a virus from outer space.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
Open your mind and let the pictures out
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
