Jitte Van

“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...”
― Jack Kerouac

“Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.”
― Bill Bryson, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Down in Denver, all I did was die.”
― Jack Kerouac