"[...]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 and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!"
"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."
"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?"
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"