In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.