stick at it like a benni addict

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell