More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Open your mind and let the pictures out
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Paranoia is just having the right information.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
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.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
