Jack Kerouac. On the road (№ 414000)

Is it not true that you start life as a glorious child who believes in everything that is under the roof of his father's house? And then comes the day of Laodicea, when you find out that you are sir, wretched, poor, blind and nag, and with the harei of a disgusting upset ghost, shuddering, you go through the nightmare of life.