"There is no God and we are his prophets."
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

"Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!"
— John Fante

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
— Jack Kerouac

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

"The only truth is music"
— Jack Kerouac

"They build their own Hells."
— Jack Kerouac

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
— Jack Kerouac

"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."
— Gary Snyder