Neal Cassady Quotes

I remember being unusually pensive that May evening, perhaps it was the heat of Spring's first warm day which, encountering my thick winter blood, forced a dilution upward into a brain weary of straining the last six months to overcome freezing and the long absent thinning of blood stirred a weakening desire for the softer things, a nostalgia, yet a death, a precognition, if you will... ~ Neal Cassady

Billboards, billboards, drink this, eat that, use all manner of things, everyone, the best, the cheapest, the purest and most satisfying of all their available counterparts. Red lights flicker on every horizon, airplanes beware; cars flash by, more lights. Workers repair the gas main. Signs, signs, lights, lights, streets, streets. ~ Neal Cassady

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. ~ Neal Cassady

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world! ~ Neal Cassady

Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back. ~ Neal Cassady

I see no greatness in my self ... I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. ~ Neal Cassady

My prose has no individual style as such, but is rather an unspoken and still unexpressed groping toward the personal. There is something there that wants to come out; something of my own that must be said. Yet, perhaps, words are not the way for me. ~ Neal Cassady

Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate. ~ Neal Cassady

The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts. ~ Neal Cassady

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters. ~ Jack Kerouac

It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102) ~ Geoffrey Nunberg

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ~ Thom Gunn

Yo, Y.T.," Roadkill says, " 'sup?"
"'Sup with you?"
"Surfing the Tura. 'Sup with you?"
"Maxing The Clink."
"Whoa! Who popped you?"
"MetaCops. Affixed me to the gate of White Columns with a loogie gun."
"Whoa, how very! When you leaving?"
"Soon. Can you swing by and give me a hand?"
"What do you mean?"
Men. "You know, give me a hand. You're my boyfriend," she says, speaking very
simply and plainly. "If I get popped, you're supposed to come around and help
bust me out." Isn't everyone supposed to know this stuff? Don't parents teach
their kids anything anymore?
"Well, uh, where are you?"
"Buy 'n' Fly number 501,762."
"I'm on my way to Bernie with a super-ultra."
As in San Bernardino. As in super-ultra-high-priority delivery. As in, you're
out of luck.
"Okay, thanks for nothing."
"Awwww," he begins.
"Surfing safety," Y.T. says, in the traditional sarcastic sign off.
"Keep breathing," Roadkill says. The roaring noise snaps off.
What a jerk. Next date, he's really going to have to grovel. But in the
meantime, there's one other person who owes her one. The only problem is that
he might be a spaz. But it's worth a try. ~ Neal Stephenson

Little Red, Little Red, what's in the chip bag, Little Red?"
And in the same singsong voice I answered, "Nothing at all, Nothing at all, Nothing at all but your grandpa's head. ~ Neal Shusterman

It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No
the soul of a man. ~ Neal Shusterman

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Absolutely no bedwetting liberals or race warlords were harmed or mistreated in the creation of this web page - though the temptation was certainly very tough to resist. ~ Neal Boortz

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed. ~ Neal Shusterman

Maybe this was why Neal always had his guards up. His eyes, unguarded, could burn tunnels through mountains. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart. ~ Neal Shusterman

Hey, Hiro," the black-and-white guy says, "you want to try some Snow Crash?"
A lot of people hang around in front of The Black Sun saying weird things. You
ignore them. But this gets Hiro's attention.
Oddity the first: The guy knows Hiro's name. But people have ways of getting
that information. It's probably nothing.
The second: This sounds like an offer from a drug pusher. Which would be normal
in front of a Reality bar. But this is the Metaverse. And you can't sell drugs
in the Metaverse, because you can't get high by looking at something.
The third: The name of the drug. Hiro's never heard of a drug called Snow Crash
before. That's not unusual -- a thousand new drugs get invented each year, and
each of them sells under half a dozen brand names.
But a "snow crash" is computer lingo. It means a system crash -- a bug -- at
such a fundamental level that it frags the part of the computer that controls
the electron beam in the monitor, making it spray wildly across the screen,
turning the perfect gridwork of pixels into a gyrating blizzard. Hiro has seen
it happen a million times. But it's a very peculiar name for a drug.
The thing that really gets Hiro's attention is his confidence. He has an
utterly calm, stolid presence. It's like talking to an asteroid. Which would
be okay if he were doing something that made the tiniest little bit of sense.
Hiro's trying to read some clues in the ~ Neal Stephenson

She's not afraid. She's wearing a dentata. ~ Neal Stephenson

Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. ~ Mary C. Neal

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance. ~ Mary C. Neal

The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced. ~ Neal Barnard

The fact that the scientific investigator works 50 percent of his time by nonrational means is, it seems, quite insufficiently recognized. ~ Neal Stephenson

I can communicate in 6,909 living and dead languages. I can have more than fifteen billion simultaneous conversations, and be fully engaged in every single one. I can be eloquent, and charming, funny, and endearing, speaking the words you most need to hear, at the exact moment you need to hear them.
Yet even so, there are unthinkable moments where I can find no words, in any language, living or dead.
And in those moments, if I had a mouth, I might open it to scream. ~ Neal Shusterman

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations. ~ Neal Stephenson

Is this some exercise in keeping a straight face? ~ Neal Stephenson

Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae! ~ Neal Stephenson

Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience. ~ Patricia Neal

Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it. ~ Neal Shusterman

Life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind. ~ Terry A. O'Neal

Life isn't about waiting for the showers to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene ~ Mary C. Neal

By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general. ~ Neal Stephenson

(Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?) ~ Neal Shusterman

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. ~ Richard Neal

Guillen wasn't finished about his intent to stick with Contreras with left-hander Neal Cotts warming up. He was dominating the Twins, ... People think I'm a bad manager or don't know the game or fall asleep during the game and wake up and change pitchers. I'm watching the same game they are. ~ Ozzie Guillen

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask. ~ Richard Neal

Life was about forging time, not just passing time. ~ Neal Shusterman

It is only by yielding to God that we can begin to realize His will for us. And if we truly trust God, why not yield to His loving omniscience? After all, He knows us and our possibilities much better than do we. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Maybe this was all down to some supernatural effect, such as grace, that flowed through people's lives even if they didn't understand why. ~ Neal Stephenson

When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Jack could sound them out only through carousing with them over a period of weeks. Jack had long since lost interest in carousing per se, but he recalled how it was done, and could still put on a performance of carousing that looked sincere but was in fact wholly affected, shrewd, and calculating. He was helped in this by his two sons, who really meant it. ~ Neal Stephenson

Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here alive, you don't thank me for being alive. And you don't even say goodbye to me. ~ Neal Stephenson

The stars' positions were randomly generated, a fact that drove Pluto crazy. ~ Neal Stephenson

You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines. ~ Neal Knox

Any assessment of where we stand in relationship to Him tells us that we do not stand at all. We kneel. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

We see everything from the narrator's point of view, so exposition about the world is limited to what impinges directly on him and the story he's telling. Considering how old the world is, we learn very little about its history, which I think is a good thing. ~ Neal Stephenson

encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, ~ Neal Stephenson

Are you going to tell me who she is?" she asked.
"A psychiatrist," Nick shot back.
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, it's about time," his mother replied. ~ Neal Baer

You always have a choice," he said, which was a half-truth if ever there was one. ~ Neal Shusterman

Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them. ~ Neal Shusterman

All her hopes of a future have been torn away from her again
and having those hopes, even briefly, makes this far more painful than not having had them at all. ~ Neal Shusterman

For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20). ~ Neal A. Maxwell

Just do your breathing exercises." He leans over the backseat and grabs my hand. "Come on. That's it. Hoo-hoo-hoo, hee-hee-hee. Hoo-hoo-hoo...' 'Keep that up,' I warn him, wincing around another contraction, 'and I'm going to hit you right in your "hoo-hoo ~ Martin Leicht Isla Neal

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him? ~ Neal A. Maxwell