Jack Kerouac Quotes

It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? — sleep.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

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

Be in love with your life every detail of it

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Something that you feel will find its own form.

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange.

The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!