Kerouac Quotes

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.

And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

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.

Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry

Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Love is bitter, death is sweet.

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

I'd rather be thin than famousbut I'm fatpaste that in your broadway show

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…

Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!

And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind, same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras, doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words.