The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
Jack KerouacA fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.
Jack KerouacMy aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
Jack KerouacThe silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.
Jack KerouacItโs a sort of furtiveness โฆ Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge thereโs no use flaunting on that level, the level of the โpublicโ, a kind of beatness โ I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are โ and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world โฆ Itโs something like that. So I guess you might say weโre a beat generation.
Jack Kerouac