I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called Big Sur , and I would give a ball to… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our… — Sarah Vowell 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
“Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris and… — Alison Winfield Burns 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
“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image