Jack Kerouac

Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

— Jack Kerouac

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…

— Jack Kerouac

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

— Jack Kerouac

“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is,…

— Jack Kerouac

“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Most of them were running away from something―usually the law.”

— Jack Kerouac

“Non lo so, non importa e non fa nessuna differenza.”

— Jack Kerouac

“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three…

— Jack Kerouac

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I…

— Jack Kerouac

“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

— Jack Kerouac

“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what…

— Jack Kerouac

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

— Jack Kerouac

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

— Jack Kerouac

“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all…

— Jack Kerouac

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

— Jack Kerouac

“Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?”

— Jack Kerouac

“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the…

— Jack Kerouac

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

— Jack Kerouac

The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,…

— Jack Kerouac

“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me:…

— Jack Kerouac

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

— Jack Kerouac

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

“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his…

— Jack Kerouac