“The mambo never let up for a moment, it frenzied on like an endless journey in the jungle (288).” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — 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
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all at the same time, I am empty… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, of the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this… — 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
“I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret… — 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