But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.