Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

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