1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.