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
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — 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
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
Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys… — 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
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — 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