Jack Kerouac

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Jack Kerouac

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Jack Kerouac

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.

Jack Kerouac

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

Jack Kerouac

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.

Jack Kerouac

A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you’re not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you’re not interested or even involved.

Jack Kerouac

Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can’t fall off a mountain.

Jack Kerouac

Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I’d realize what there is, is ecstasy.

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

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and laugh.

Jack Kerouac