Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

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

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

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 never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

I’m really Wallace Beery in ‘The Champ.’

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?

Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

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

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