Jack Kerouac Quotes

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath the heater whiter blaze of stars--those stars that in the North, in the clear nights, all hang frozen tears by the billions, with January Milky Ways like silver taffy, veils of frost in the stillness, huge blinked, throbbing to the slow beat of time and universal blood.

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.