I have the right ideas, but my words are too ... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and he… - Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.

Life must be rich and full of loving — it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die — In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...