1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

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.

...the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink.

...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.

There was something virile in her attitude toward tragedy, as though she were defying God to knock off the chip He Himself had placed on her shoulder.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

my lion is fed, I sleep at his side.

Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.