We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted to find out what a 'beatnik' was, and so a friend and I went right to the source. What we learned, of course, was that beatniks were mostly artists.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.

Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as a bride, I'm not so gauche as that, but as a mistress or paramour or concubine or companion or friend or pal or anything else. I just don't want to be left alone! I want to get out of here!" She said it again for all the wide-faced flowers to hear: "I want to get out of here!

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.