I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — 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
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
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
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
...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
“...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
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 happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. — 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
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
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — 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
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — 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
