“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.”
More from Jack Kerouac
“I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”
“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too…”
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again...”
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”