“If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.”

“Take one trip overland here and you'll know forever that a road in the jungle is a sweet, flat, impossible dream.”

“And all of us with our closed eyes smelled the frangipani blossoms in the big rectangles of open wall, flowers so sweet they conjure up sin or heaven, depending on which way you are headed.”

“Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it. ”

“What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?”

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”

“You can't know somebody, I thought, till you've followed him home.”