Quotes from Jack Kerouac

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

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.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

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.

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

The silence was an intense roar.

I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.