33 quotes found
“We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).”
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”
“I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion”
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
“Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!”
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with trave...”
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
“Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fe...”
“Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.”
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk real straight talk about soul...”
“I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was...”
“Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.”
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean fo...”
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
“...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.”
“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on ...”
“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.”
“I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.”
“He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.”
