Beats And Saints

"Judge nothing, and you will be happy. Forgive everything, and you will be happier. Love everything, and you will be the happiest."

Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady, Gough Street, San Francisco, CA, 1963 © Charles Plymell.

“Allen was queer in those days, experimenting with himself to the hilt, and Neal saw that, a former boyhood hustler himself in the Denver night, and wanting dearly to learn how to write poetry like Allen, the first thing you know he was attacking Allen with a great amorous soul such as only a conman can have. I was in the same room, I heard them across the darkness and I mused and said to myself “Hmm, now something’s started, but I don’t want anything to do with it.” So I didn’t see them for about two weeks during which time they cemented their relationship to mad proportions.”

—Jack Kerouac “On The Road: The Original Scroll”