What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal..

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and final….

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said '….

Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live..

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.

What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could t….

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!.

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden….

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw..

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identif….

We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me..

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I wa….

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying ….

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?.

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother ….

I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with differe….

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe tha….

I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so….