1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.