Quotes by Jack Kerouac

“Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is t...”

“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.”

“I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kiss...”

“Jesus was a strange hobo who walked on water—”

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”

“...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.”

“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on ...”

“I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.”

“He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.”

“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”

“Let me sing the beauty of my Maggie. Legs:--the knees attached to the thighs, knees shiny, thighs like milk. Arms:--the levers of my content, the serpents of my joy. Back:--the sight of that in a s...”

“We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).”

“…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.”

“Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.”

“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.”

“Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)”

“I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the ...”

“Is Virgin you trying to fathom me”

“Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming...”