Most road trips in China these days are still more John…

“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in…

— Sam Anderson - NY Magazine

Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.

— Dennis Miller

“I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack…

— Amy Chozick

Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best…

— K. M. Soehnlein

“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

— Edward Abbey

“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted…

— Gerald Nicosia

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

— Anne Waldman

Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.

— Paul Theroux

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

— Rupert Penry-Jones

My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.

— Kevin Kwan

The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan Ginsberg's period.…

— David Bowie

“I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time when the…

— Sterling Lord

“I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for…

— Sterling Lord