What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.