After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
Jack KerouacIt made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
Jack KerouacHe seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
Jack KerouacBop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.
Jack Kerouac