"...The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. All these people thinking they're hardheaded materialistic types, they don't know shit about matter, their heads are so full of dreamy ideas and notions." [Japhy] raised his hand. "Listen to that quail calling."

I recalled with a twinge of sadness how Japhy was always so dead serious about food, and I wished the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

Dharma Bums, Kerouac