Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

stick at it like a benni addict

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.