Jack Kerouac Quotes

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

We agreed to love each other madly.

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.