1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

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.

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and maybe that’s why it happened right there and then, that strange red afternoon.

You can’t fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

I’m going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

I want to marry a girl,” I told them, “so I can rest my soul with her till we both get old.

Lissen Percepied do you believe in freedom?-then say what you want, it’s poetry, poetry, all of it is poetry, great prose is poetry, great verse is poetry.

I’d rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

I made love to her in the sweetness of the weary morning. Then, two tired angels of some kind, hung-up forlornly in an LA shelf, having found the closest and most delicious thing in life together, we fell asleep and slept till late afternoon.

It’s hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim.