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

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.