don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

Life is life, and kind is kind

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.