It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.