William S. Burroughs
Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.