listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot
Jack KerouacI looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
Jack KerouacRoaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Jack KerouacLA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
Jack KerouacIn all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood
Jack Kerouac