Jack Kerouac Quotes

It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.

My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void.

Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

...the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink.

The eyes of hope looking over the flare of the hood into the maw with its white line feeding in straight as an arrow, the lighting of fresh cigarettes, the buckling to lean forward to the next adventure something that's been going on in America ever since the covered wagons clocked the deserts in three months flat—

Says, Rahula! Rahula! Face of Glory! Universe chawed and swallowed!