More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Language is a virus from outer space.
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
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.
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
