Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, go… - Jack Kerouac

I ate apple pie and ice cream — it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon — they were coming home from high school — but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.