Quotes from Jack Kerouac

I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

I really hate to write.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

All of life is a foreign country.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.