Feds Quote by Anne Waldman

“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.”

— Gary Snyder

Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and…

— Ben Gibbard

Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn…

— Gerald Nicosia

Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was…

— Joyce Johnson

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

— Edward Abbey

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

— Jerry Garcia

I have a very good relationship with Kepa.

— Edouard Mendy

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted…

— Joyce Johnson

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to…

— John Dryden

Jack appreciates people on a very, very sophisticated and deep level.

— Kyle Gass

I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could…

— Sasha Alexander

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

— William Makepeace Thackeray