Jack Kerouac Quotes

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

I’m really Wallace Beery in ‘The Champ.’

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody.’ I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

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

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

All of life is a foreign country.

It’s hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.