“Texas is undeniable...We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest.”

“We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell”

“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night...”

“…the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside?”

“my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.”

“Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.”

“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”