“ The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys. Jack Kerouac
“ I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop. Jack Kerouac
“ A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for t… Jack Kerouac
“ I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equal… Jack Kerouac
“ A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. Jack Kerouac
“ I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a f… Jack Kerouac
“ Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance. Jack Kerouac
“ I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of the… Jack Kerouac
“ Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back. Jack Kerouac
“ I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, 'in anguish,' nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and bec… Jack Kerouac
“ And I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. Jack Kerouac
“ All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235). Jack Kerouac
“ I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being. Jack Kerouac
“ Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all? Jack Kerouac
