1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.