We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

— Jack Kerouac

Whatever anyone does, / anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounces off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)

— Jack Kerouac

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

— Jack Kerouac

What is the universe but a lot of waveband a craving desire is a wave…

— Jack Kerouac

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

— Jack Kerouac

Whither goes thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

— Jack Kerouac

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

— Jack Kerouac

Why did God do it? Or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it's great!"—Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs, television murders, Bolivian starvation, thieves in silk, thieves in neckties, thieves in office, paper shufflers, bureaucrats, insult, rage, dismay, horror, terrified nightmares, secret death of hangovers, cancer, ulcers, strangulation, pus, old age, old age homes, canes, puffed flesh, dropped teeth, stink, tears, and goodbye. Somebody else writes it, I don't know how.

— Jack Kerouac

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much?

— Jack Kerouac

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

— Jack Kerouac