Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant; it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.

Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.