The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth.

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred others patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse.

She wrote out a list of all our names and all our sins, she says, and then tried to flush them down the toilet where she works, and the long list of paper stuck in the toilet...