God who is everything possesses the eye of awakening, like dreaming a long dream of an impossible task.
Dreaming: the phantom of self-illusion emanating visions that change every nightLiving: the phantom of universal self-illusion emanating the huge vision of the world that takes millenniums to change
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...
Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to yo...
As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the...
And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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 the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
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...
A fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his...
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...
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really need...
Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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...
What a horror it would have been if the world was real.
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.
To this boy of New England the May morning was like faint music in the woods again, some unspeakably exciting foregathering of events far in the deep shade of morning pines, all of it stirring there....
This can't go on all the time- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.