People Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

— Jack Kerouac

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

— Jack Kerouac

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

— Jack Kerouac

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

— Jack Kerouac

Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.

— Jack Kerouac

“Some people have vibrations that come straight from the vibrating heart of the sun, unjaded...”

— Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

— Jack Kerouac

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

— Jack Kerouac

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to…

— Jack Kerouac

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is…

— Jack Kerouac

I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with…

— Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be…

— Jack Kerouac

The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and…

— Jack Kerouac

One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no…

— Jack Kerouac

And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact…

— Jack Kerouac

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make…

— Jack Kerouac

I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost…

— Jack Kerouac

I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have…

— Jack Kerouac

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and…

— Jack Kerouac

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

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?…

— Jack Kerouac