"We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and "looked "at each other for the last time."

"Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes."

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

"I feel guilty for being a member of the human race."

"This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do."

"A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth"

"Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?"

"Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world."

"My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness."

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

"As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk"

"Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."

"The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words."

"Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."

"The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is."

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"We agreed to love each other madly."

"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."

"I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do."

"The road is life"

"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."

"I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all."

"They build their own Hells."

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

"But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things."

"My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears."

"It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her."

"LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle."

"Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree."

"His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line."

"There are worse things than being mad."

"Sure baby, ma ana. It was always ma ana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––ma ana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven."

"For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me."

"Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off."

"And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight."

"The beauty of things must be that they end."

"My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love."

"Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing."

"All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road."

"The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out."

"Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."

"Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away."

"...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING."

"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"

"When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom."

"Pretty girls make graves"

"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you."

"You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday"