Jack
woe causes sticks
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
dream stupid ideas
It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
way fantastic whole
This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
children men civilization
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
fighting cities names
You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
kindness practice heaven
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
mean people childhood
I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.
hate pride soul
All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.
girl dream spiritual
...-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity...
compassion sea personality
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
tonight world causes
We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.
eye air smog
The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
generations beats playboy
The beat generation (coined in Playboy)
knowing perfect pioneers
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.