“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money,… — 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
¦-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Stare deep into the world before you as if it were the void: innumerable holy ghosts, buddhies, and savior gods there hide,… — 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
“Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When all of the family was stilled in sleep, when the streetlamp a few paces from the house shone at night and… — 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 Image
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 Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“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 Image
