I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
Jack KerouacThe truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
Jack KerouacAnd as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.
Jack Kerouac