Quotes from Jack Kerouac

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

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 earth? All in the mind.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

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

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.