More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
Open your mind and let the pictures out
Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.
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.
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.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
