1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

There are worse things than being mad.

Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?