It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. — 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
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. — 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
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far… — 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 promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should… — 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
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view — 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
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — 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
He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere,… — 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
