Jack Kerouac

You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it – don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.

Jack Kerouac

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Jack Kerouac

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

Jack Kerouac

Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything, open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. Be in love with your life.

Jack Kerouac

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Jack Kerouac

As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

Jack Kerouac

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

Jack Kerouac

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Jack Kerouac

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Jack Kerouac