Quotes from Jack Kerouac
Oh, smell the people! yelled Dean with his face out the window, sniffing. Ah, God! Life!
- Jack Kerouac
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
- Jack Kerouac
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
- Jack Kerouac
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
- Jack Kerouac
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
- Jack Kerouac
If you own a rug you own too much.
- Jack Kerouac
Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.
- Jack Kerouac
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
- Jack Kerouac
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
- Jack Kerouac
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
- Jack Kerouac
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
- Jack Kerouac
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
- Jack Kerouac