Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Oh...
You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that you're fooled into believing not only that you have six senses, but that you contact...
A traveling epic Hunkey, crossing and recrossing the country every year, south in the winter and north in the summer and only because he has no place he can stay in without getting tired of it and bec...
Don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
I wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
…the loneliness…the inexpressibly delicious sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they’re like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often t...
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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 and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was ex...
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence, or words like that. Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let...
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.
He knew the road would getmore interesting, especially ahead, always ahead.
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 love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we...
He’s a great mysterious Bodhisattva I think maybe a reincarnation of Asagna the great Mahayana scholar of the old centuries. And who am I? I dunno, maybe you’re Goat.
How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.
I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless you in the endless future, amen.
I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and go along, God it was all the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me in i...
I dunno, remember when we were in East St. Louis with George, and Jack you said you'd love those beautiful dancing girls if you knew they would live forever as beautiful as they are? (p. 173)
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