...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

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!'

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.