Jack Kerouac Quotes

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

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

Accept loss forever.

I don’t really go out at all.

Symbolism is alright in ‘fiction,’ but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.