William S. Burroughs Quotes
- Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
- A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
- Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
- How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
- Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
- 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…
- Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
- Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
- Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
- A functioning police state needs no police.
- Language is a virus from outer space.
- A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.
- I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
- There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
- Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
- The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.