Quotes from Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

They build their own Hells.

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

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

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

There are worse things than being mad.

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

Pretty girls make graves

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??