I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — 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
