The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac. — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Not aimless. Not in the least. It's just that my aims are different from most. There are plenty of aimless people on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until… — Gerald Nicosia Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been… — Sam Anderson - NY Magazine Copy Share Image
“Here’s a thing Jack Kerouac said: ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Did the tea-time of your soul Make you long for wilder days Did you never let Jack Kerouac Wash over you in… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
