Jack Kerouac

Don’t touch me, I’m full of snakes.

Jack Kerouac

Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

Down in Denver, all I did was die.

Jack Kerouac

Eager for bread and love.

Jack Kerouac

Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.

Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

Jack Kerouac

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Jack Kerouac

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it’s that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Jack Kerouac

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

Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac