1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

His friends said, “Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?” and Bull said, “I like it because it’s ugly.” All his life was in that line.

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can’t fall off a mountain.

The closer you get to real matter, rock, air, fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk – real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

Smith you don’t realize it’s a privilege to practice giving presents to others.

Some’s bastards, some’s ain’t. That’s the score.

What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but do what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgements and pray for the light.

Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue.

I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races.