And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)

stick at it like a benni addict

Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.