The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words..

equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha.

Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes..

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the one….

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to ….

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death..

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land..

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?.

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition..

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea..

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub..

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick..

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory,….

The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on….

Something that you feel will find its own form..

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about peo….

All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up….

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future..

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time..