“ 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
“ I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called , and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards b… Hunter S. Thompson
“ Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth's dreams become a moveable feast you… Alison Winfield Burns
“ Writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an urban Thoreau) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of work, pr… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ We all grew up, those of us who took to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite poet, concluding that God was likely never Pooh Bear, that sometimes New York and California could be jus… Sarah Vowell
“ 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
“ Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac Frank O'Hara
“ If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems… Sarah Vowell
“ ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100. Jack Kerouac
“ For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy Ryder in The Dharma Bums. Snyder was a practicing Budd… Joel Dinerstein
