More Quotes by William S. Burroughs
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.
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.
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.
Language is a virus from outer space.
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.
How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.
NOTHING happens by coincidence.
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.
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
