and the stars were icicles of mockery

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.

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

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show