William S. Burroughs Mind Quotations

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.

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

We must find out what words are and how they function. They become images when written down, but images of words repeated in the mind and not of the image of the thing itself.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change

Open your mind and let the pictures out

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.