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

— Jack Kerouac

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

— Jack Kerouac

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy, and every moment is precious.

— Jack Kerouac

Buds in the snow—the deadly fight between two birds

— Jack Kerouac

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

— Jack Kerouac

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

— Jack Kerouac

... 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

Deify was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Jap hies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless scrupulous civilization.

— Jack Kerouac

Did I come into this world through the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?

— Jack Kerouac

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

— Jack Kerouac