He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.