When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus. Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
Kerouac had lots of class — stumbling drunk in the end, but read those last books. He never blames anybody else; he always blames himself. The Paris Review interview (1994)
There were other books that were being kept, real books. In those real books is the real accounting of your life. The Paris Review interview (1994)