1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

DEAR BABY, Isn’t it good to know winter is coming –.

I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’s practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.

I’d rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...

I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn’t give a damn.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.

But no matter, the road is life.

I wanted to go and get Rita again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this time, and calm her fears about men.

What difference does it make after all? – anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.