It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.

The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.

It's the light of the oncoming train.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

In the end, there is no end.