And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

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

But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.