More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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.
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.
You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.
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 think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
