When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.
Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.
Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years. It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.
Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?