1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

We had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.

Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean’s souls to joy.

But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...

I think it’s a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.

It’s only through form that we can realize emptiness.

Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

I like it because its ugly.