Jack Kerouac Quotes

I know who the great poets are.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

My witness is the empty sky.

Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything

I don’t really go out at all.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with ‘On the Road’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’, I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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.

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody.’ I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who… burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.