After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing… — 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
