More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
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.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
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.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Open your mind and let the pictures out
