Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

and the stars were icicles of mockery

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.