Pull My Daisy

"The charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power."
-Jack Kerouac's favorite line from On The Road

"Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires."
-Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac

"If you have a choice of two things and can't decide, take both." -Gregory Corso "The stone world came to me, and said Flesh gives you an hour's life."
-Gregory Corso

"In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life."
-Norman Mailer

"Love is all.'
-Jack Kerouac

"What's your road, man? -holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow."
-Neal Cassady as Dean Moriarty in On The Road

"We are all trying to get the exact style of ourselves."
-Michael McClure on the San Francisco Renaissance

"I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation."
-William Everson aka Brother Antoninus

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
William Burroughs

"An army is an army against love."
-Peter Orlovsky

Jack Kerouac's Translations of Buddhist Terms
Dharma: "truth law"
Nirvana: "blown-out-ness"
Tathata: "that which everything is"
Tathagata: "attainer to that which everything is"
Bodhisattva-Manasattvas: "beings of great wisdom"

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

"Wherever I go I see myself in a mirror- it used to be my own selfblood, now it is god's."
-Allen Ginsberg

"Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life."
-Nietzsche

"I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children."
-Jack Kerouac