Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for a….

I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters..

The unspeakable visions of the individual..

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling….

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother..

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion..

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

The beat generation (coined in Playboy).

The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then..

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you..

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink..

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger….

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy..

It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of….

Genius gives birth, talent delivers..

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity..

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroa….

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysica….

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go..

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun y….