Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to be gay, little petulances, feelings of lo...
Ripples in the upside down lake of the void . . . The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down
Now you're going East with Sal, Galatea said, and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to stay home and mind the baby now you're gone--how can she keep her job? and she ne...
Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
It was remarkable how Dean could go mad and then suddenly continue with his soul - which I think is wrapped up in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road - calmly and sanely a...
It all ends in tears anyway.
I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?
At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
It's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world.
Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you?
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a ho...
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
There is nowhere to go but everywhere.
The waves are Chinese, but the earth is an Indian thing.
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view