Jack Kerouac Quotes

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

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

I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders.

All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.

I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Life must be rich and full of loving — it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

America is a lonely crock of shit...

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

"As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

All of life is a foreign country.