More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
You were given the power to love in order to use it, no matter what pain it may cause you.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
