1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.