Jack Kerouac, On The Road Quotes
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
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...
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.
Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.