1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

I like it because its ugly

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,

Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.

An art dies when it describes itself instead of life – when it turns from the expression of man’s feelings in the void, to a mere description of the void.