More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
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.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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.
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.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
