“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?” — 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
