It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

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!'

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.