“Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? I did.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Y de pronto sentí lo que siempre siento cuando trato de explicar el Dharma a la gente, a Alvah, a mi madre,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever sleep? Thousands of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But Dave Wain that lean rangy red head Welchman with his penchant for going off in Willie to fish in the Rogue… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
