Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

It all ends in tears anyway.

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

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

beautiful insane in the rain

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

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 -