"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Pain or love or danger makes you real again...."

"They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see."

"Something good will come of all things yet"

"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."

"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"

"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."

"So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."

"Finding Nirvana is like locating silence."

"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die."

"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word."