The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. - Jack Kerouac

"As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.