Jack Kerouac

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Jack Kerouac

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

Jack Kerouac

Mankind is like dogs, not gods – as long as you don’t get mad they’ll bite you – but stay mad and you’ll never be bitten. Dogs don’t respect humility and sorrow.

Jack Kerouac

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

Jack Kerouac

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Jack Kerouac

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Jack Kerouac

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

Jack Kerouac

My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go – just go, go, go.

Jack Kerouac

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, 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.

Jack Kerouac

My witness is the empty sky.

Jack Kerouac