1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I know who the great poets are.

I don't really go out at all.

I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!'

Cliches are truisms and all truisms are true.

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

The sun on your back. Two fists in the wind. And the horizon teasing you farther down a great road. We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.