The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method..

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree..

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody….

Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of t….

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing..

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering ….

beautiful insane in the rain.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me..

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I ….

Houses are full of things that gather dust.

It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet..

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls..

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all t….

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing..

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he rea….

My witness is the empty sky..

The road must eventually lead to the whole world..

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words..

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic..

And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved..