More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
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.
The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.
