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Everything’ll be all right, desolation is desolation everywhere and desolation is all we got and desolation aint so bad.

The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

It’s hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim.

She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. ‘Look’, he said. ‘You’re a fish in a pond. It’s drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything’s going to be all right.

They’ll eat your heart alive Every time.

Senevabitch Jackcrack, vugup huh?

The world was upsidedown hanging in an ocean of endless space and here were all these people sitting in theatres watching movies.

Life was life no matter where one lived.

And I saw how everybody dies and nobody’s going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.

Dear Sirs: Do you mind if I let my heart out, splattering all its delicate essences over these following pages?

One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole tree swaying beneath them making their dance, their every jiggle, a huge and communal and mysterious necessity dance, and so just floating up there in the void dancing the meaning of the tree.

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I’d realize what there is, is ecstasy.

Once upon a time there’d been a blue-eyed sea captain dining in here.

A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes – the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.

Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of ‘happy nuts,’ There’s a tightening around the head that hurts, there’s a terror of the mind that hurts even more, they’re so unhappy and especially because they can’t explain it to anybody.

You know,” I said, “I think it doesn’t make any difference to him anyway. He’s just satisfied to wander around and forget things.

I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women.

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.

And all you hearts who love life realize now that to love is to love-.

If you keep this up you’ll both go crazy, but let me know what happens as you go along.

I wanted to know what ‘IT’ meant. ‘Ah well’ – Dean laughed – ’now you’re asking me impon-de-rables – ahem!

Trouble is, what would I do with her once I won her?- it’s like winning an angel in hell and you are then entitled to go down with her to where it’s worse or maybe there’ll be light, some, down there, maybe it’s me’s crazy-.

There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.

Actually I’m just a sick clown and so is everybody else.

Some people have vibrations that come straight from the vibrating heart of the sun, unjaded...

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called ‘pretentious’ by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.

This is the way I like it, when you get going there’s just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy.

It was probably the pivotal point of our friendship when he realized I had actually spent some hours thinking about him and his troubles, and he was trying to place that in his tremendously involved and tormented mental categories. Something clicked in both of us.

At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.

He had no idea of the impression he was making and cared less... He was finally an Angel, as I always knew he would become; but like any Angel he still had rages and furies...

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

Mudface is the mud in your goatface. What would you say if someone was asked the question ‘Does a dog have a Buddha nature?’ and said ‘Woof!

I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men.

Pretty soon... do you realize there’ll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody’ll give up reading in despair-There’ll be an Explosion of childhoods and pasts, they’ll have to have a giant Brain print them out microscopically on film to be stored in a warehouse on Mars to give Heaven Seventy Kotis to catch up on all that reading- Seventy Million Million Kotis! – Whoopee! – Everything is free!

It’s terrible never to find a father in a world chock-full of fathers of all sorts.

Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon...

I told you it was kicks. Everybody’s kicks, man!

My philosophy is that you can’t explain the world. It’s too big and it’s too crazy and sometimes it’s funny and most of the time it’s... strange.

I’d better be a poet Or lay down dead.

What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgements and pray for the light.

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won’t bother to talk about, except it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead.

I made love to her in the sweetness of the weary morning. Then, two tired angels of some kind, hung-up forlornly in an LA shelf, having found the closest and most delicious thing in life together, we fell asleep and slept till late afternoon.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street...

All over America highschool and college kids thinking ‘Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking’ while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded.