“By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But the mountains were mighty solemn, and so was Japhy, and for that matter so was I, and in fact laugher is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? "What's going to happen… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The world ain't so bad, when you got Japhies, I thought, and felt glad. All the aching muscles and the hunger in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dammit that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I ever heard in my life. I wish I'd a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Japhy,' I said out loud, 'I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Everything was fine with the Zen Lunatics, the nut wagon was too far away to hear us. But there was a wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You'll be sorry some day. Why don't you ever understand what I'm trying to tell you: it's with your six sense that… — 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
