Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.