quote

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is crying--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

Jack Kerouac

I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

Jack Kerouac

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Jack Kerouac

See all

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)

But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is crying--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)