“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there'.”

“We agreed to love each other madly.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop.”

“Better to sleep in an uncomrtable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.”

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen ebents wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alice to see?”

“I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

“All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”

“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”

“I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”

“The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.”

“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.”

“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”

“...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-bye.”

“Life is life, and kind is kind.”

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time' and we all know time!”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

“Nevertheless we understood each other on al levels of madness...”

“It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.”

“But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because...”

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time...”

“ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...”

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”