Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. — 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
“...I didn't bring my peremptory tone to bear in regard to what you'd just said about the unnecessariness of sleep but only,… — 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
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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 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
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my… — 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 just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When all of the family was stilled in sleep, when the streetlamp a few paces from the house shone at night and… — 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
