The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. But I have joy.

I'm a triple trombone fool.

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too big world.

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

Be a crazy dumb saint of your own mind... Have no fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge.

I don't know. I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Walking on water wasn’t built in a day.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?