I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur, and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood.
I remember on one of my many visits with 
I sit with 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
I want to give just a slight indication of the influence the book has had. I knew that 
Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistanc... 
You could give 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
{Debbs' letter to 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Now, 75 years [after 
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
We hold these truths to be self-evident.
I esteem myself happy to have as great an ally as 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Hodor," said Hodor. 
Accordingly, we find 
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellic... 
You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. 
I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Plato... 
I have always regarded 
The only difference between 
Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I never tire of reading 
Not like 
In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, 
With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fou... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there’s a supreme being? There’s no proo... 
Interviewer: Didn't 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
One of the bravest, grandest 
Our friend 
I've been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic work... 
When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a... 
If it were 
...only one man lived who could understand 
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has... 
When once we quit the basis of sensation, all is in the wind. To talk of immaterial existence... 
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t... 
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is... 
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. 