More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of the bull in the ring, you are charging the cloth. That is what politics is for, to teach you the cloth. Just as the bullfighter teaches the bull, teaches him to follow, obey the cloth.
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.
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.
