"if you don't know how to handle a chopstick and stick it in that family pot with the best of 'em, you'll starve." (Kerouac, 73)
-This quote is the idea that if you can't figure out how to just go for something like everyone else. You can't live never getting involved, or committing yourself to anything. This relates to both Japhy and Smith because Smith needs to be able to let in Japhy, and Japhy as well needs to be able to let the world in. Both Smith and Japhy have issues with their personal lives because of their conflicting interests, they both have ideas that they go back and forth between.
"I looked and saw crazy Japhy who'd climbed for fun to the top of a snow slope and skied right down to the bottom, about a hundred yards, on his boots and the final few yards on his back, yippeeing and glad." (Kerouac, 87)
-The above quote shows Japhy's freedom with life, and his enjoyment of the smallest things. Smith wants to learn how to get such huge pleasure from such small, seemingly unimportant things. Japhy simply takes life as it is, he doesn't want to spend such a long time strenously hiking down in the snow so he slides. That is what it takes to just be able to watch life and love it as it goes by. Smith needs to learn that for his own sake because he is constricted, sexually, mentally, physically.
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