What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be… — 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
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. — 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
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy… — 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
