"And we know that everything is going to be okay. All we need is Kerouac and a glass of sweet tea."

"Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that…"

"Some times feeling like Holden Caulfield, sometimes Jack Kerouac"

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

"All of life is a foreign country."

"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my o…"

"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 g…"

"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself"

"Believe in the holy contour of life"

"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's."