More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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.
what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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.
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 cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself.