Ah the mad hearts of all of us.
Somewhere in the vast jewelry of the Long Island night we walked, in wind and rain...
Smith, you don’t realize it’s a privilege to practice giving presents to others.′ The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the charm of usefulness and sadness of his giving.
You know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.
Go Moan for Man.
I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races.
I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’s practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.
O love, fled me – or do telepathies cross sympathetically in the night?
We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
I was going to grow up to walk in sleet in fields...
Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read” – Sal Paradise, On The Road.
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.
I’d rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.
The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then; it would mix up all my friends and all I had left of my family in a big dust cloud over the American Night.
The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.
Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.