No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water. William S. Burroughs More Quotes by William S. Burroughs More Quotes From William S. Burroughs Paranoia is just having the right information. William S. Burroughs paranoia information (1) Never give anything away for nothing. William S. Burroughs hungry waiting giving One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know... Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough... So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness. William S. Burroughs important people art How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven. William S. Burroughs men heaven long I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. William S. Burroughs one-day It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae. William S. Burroughs writing mean art In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. William S. Burroughs deviants boredom dies Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever? William S. Burroughs vacation two years 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. William S. Burroughs hate stupid spiritual Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. William S. Burroughs relative superficial I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. William S. Burroughs pain writing mean Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are. William S. Burroughs pits fool crazy I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration. William S. Burroughs deterioration hopeless arise Language is a virus from outer space. William S. Burroughs viruses language space A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product. William S. Burroughs degrading consumers wells The simplest questions are the most difficult. William S. Burroughs finding-yourself answers discovery No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive. William S. Burroughs alive Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. William S. Burroughs communication silence people If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise. William S. Burroughs live-life alive life-is I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. William S. Burroughs nuts fear men