I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
Jack KerouacWe were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
Jack KerouacYou have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.
Jack KerouacIn those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.
Jack Kerouac