When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

The actual materials are important. A book at the nightstand is important - a light you can get at - or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter