1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I’ll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I’ll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I’ll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let’s hear yours.

I am always thinking ‘What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?’

You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what’s hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you’re silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who’s lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

Ripples in the upside-down lake of the void, is what I should have said. The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.

Life is life, and kind is kind.

He sure is a crazy one,” she said. “Sure reminds me of my husband that run away. Just exactly the same guy. I sure hope my Mickey don’t grow up that way, they all do now.

I suddenly realized it was fall and that I was going back to New York.