Everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session), |
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. |
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion |
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 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. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. |
I was going to be left alone on my butt at the other end of the continent. But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see? |
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. |
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now. |
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. |
Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars. |
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. |
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. |
My witness is the empty sky. |
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. |
Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. |