More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
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.
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
