The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of… — 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
Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right… — 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
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
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just… — 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