1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.