1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on.

Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon...

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Hopalong Cassidy conducting his great white horse across the traffic;.

She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do claim.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.