Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

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

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.