Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off..

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UND….

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do..

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they….

I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bi….

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dus….

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

Genius gives birth, talent delivers..

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry..

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "….

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain..

Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful….

The only truth is music..

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….

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them..

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures ….

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go..

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion..

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now..

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the ….