All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and ‘kitchen machinery’ he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which… — 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
“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for… — 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
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy… — Joel Dinerstein Copy Share Image
