1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

...wishing there was a Personal God in all this impersonal matter.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.