“Not everything can be achieved alone.”

“Any Advance in wisdom requires a good dose of shamelessness. Intimacy”

“How do I like to write? withe a soft pencil and a hard dick, not the other way round.I like the paper of all kinds : creamy, white, yellow, thick, thin, lined, plain. In my cupboard I have at least fifty notebooks, each of which, at the time of purchase, filled me with excitement of what might be said of new thoughts discovered.....and then-nothing.”

“No amount of promises can guarantee love”

“Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted”

“The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.”

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”