“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.” Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Route 66

“Someday some hypermanic kid is going to produce a moronically maxed-out adventure odyssey that will spark the overdue rebellion among all the SAT grinds, and us grumpy mid-life critics will get to witness a new Kerouac, and the greatest pent-up young life crisis in the history of the world.”