Nick Harrison

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself "Be Wise.”
― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

“Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had a tape recorder to take it down."
Those things aren't made to be heard by the people down below," says Japhy, dead serious.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums