💬 Quotes

"To be happy, you have to be able to enjoy the present, and that means not thinking about the past or the future."

"Don't you hate it when your life doesn't make sense?"

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."

"Clocks slay time... He slay it now and then and back in the silence when the clicking stops and runs down, there is something more terrible than time, more terrible than the ticking."

"I am not is. I am was."

"Caddy smelled like trees."

"You cannot stifle the truth, nor can you silence the past; it is a ghost that sits at the table even when the chairs are empty."

"He was like a man who has lost his shadow, moving through a world that no longer recognizes his silhouette."

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well... maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion."

"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."

"He was a freak, he was a wild man, he was a massive presence that could not be ignored—a monster of the mid-century, a head-tripping, bad-vibes junkie."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"The only way to prepare for a trip like this is to dress like human peacocks and get loaded on every form of speed, acid, and booze we could find."

"Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That's part of what it means to be alive."

"When you're caught in a storm, you have to realize that you're not the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about."

"Memory warms you up from the inside. But it also tears you apart."

"The world is just a metaphor, Kafka. It’s not that things like that happen, it’s that the world is constructed in a way that things like that happen."

"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."

"Fate is a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts."