Novelist

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

All of life is a foreign country.

I know who the great poets are.

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

I don't really go out at all.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

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.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

I don't really go out at all.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

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.