1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy.

What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?

Everything’s alright, form is emptiness and emptiness is form, and we’re here forever, in one form or another, which is empty. Everything’s alright, we’re not here, there, or anywhere.

On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.

It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything and finally, as it got graying five o’clocking, about a hundred yards from the other boys and walking alone, to just pick my way singing and thinking along the little black cruds of a deer trail through the rocks, no call to think or look ahead or worry, just follow the little balls of deer crud with your eyes cast down and enjoy life.

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it’s only the golden eternity.

I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.

It’s hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.