Jack Kerouac Quotes

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

It's not that I can't fall in love. It's really that I can't help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can't distinguish between what's platonic and what isn't, because it's all too much and not enough at the same time.

a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth

And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Houses are full of things that gather dust

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness...

You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Dean's California — wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

It all ends in tears anyway.