New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.

As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

All I hope, Dean, is someday we'll be able to live on the same street with our families and get to be a couple of oldtimers together.

Allen was "queer in those days, experimenting with himself to the hilt, and Neal saw that, and a former boyhood hustler himself in the Denver night, and wanting dearly to learn how to write poetry like Allen, the first thing you know he was attacking Allen with a great amorous soul such as only a conman can have.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

Share your dream with people who want you to succeed.