I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

Eager for bread and love.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy