I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — 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