LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I found myself on Times Square. I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I go all the way down to First Avenue . . . I realize it's Friday Night all over America, in New… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I had traveled eight thousand miles around the American continent and I was back on Times Square; and right in the middle… — 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
