As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.” — 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
Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
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 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
“Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“…the loneliness…the “inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they’re like wine rarer, till if you find… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“But anybody who's never had delirium tremens even in their early stages may not understand that it's not so much a physical… — 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
Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Any drinker knows how the process works: the first day you get drunk is okay, the morning after means a big head… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to… — 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
