All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
– Jack Kerouac
Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
– Jack Kerouac
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
– Jack Kerouac
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
– Jack Kerouac
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
– Jack Kerouac
You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.
– 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
My witness is the empty sky.
– Jack Kerouac
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
– Jack Kerouac
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
– Jack Kerouac
Accept loss forever.
– Jack Kerouac
All of life is a foreign country.
– Jack Kerouac