1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

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

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....