Quotes About Neal Cassady

#1. Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Thom Gunn

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.

Neal Cassady

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

Neal Cassady

#6. Always keep things in perspective.

Angie Martinez

#7. Each day I lacerated myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.

Neal Cassady

#8. I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

Neal Cassady

#9. Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

Neal Cassady

#10. I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

Terry Mosher

#11. 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

#12. I just want to keep writing music.

Lady Gaga

#13. All he think about since us married is how to make me mind. He don't want a wife, he want a dog. (Walker 2000: 58)

Alice Walker

#14. We need to get women to the point where they aren't apologizing. Its time to take ownership in our success.

Tory Burch

#15. Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.

Neal Cassady

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

Neal Cassady

#17. We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Neal Cassady

#18. I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

Neal Cassady

#19. 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