Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?