More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
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.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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.
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.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
