One night my old man left the day’s receipts settin on top of the safe, plumb forgot. What happened – a thief came in the night, acetylene torch and all, broke open the safe, riffled up the papers, kicked over a few chairs, and left. And that thousand dollars was settin right there on top of the safe, what do you know about that?

— Jack Kerouac

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In fact it didn’t make a goddamn much of a difference to him. “I’m neutral,” said he, laughing happily with a kind of an eager slaking leer, and Japhy yelled: “Neutral is what Buddhism is!

— Jack Kerouac

And a kind of holy lightning I saw flashing from his excitement and his visions, which he described so torrentially.

— Jack Kerouac

Quando lo trovai a Mill City quella mattina era piombato in uno di quei periodi depressi e infernali che arrivano ai giovanotti sui venticinque.

— Jack Kerouac

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate. What do you think about death, Ray?

— Jack Kerouac

As I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer.

— Jack Kerouac

Only sign we have now to know which way we’re going, is ducks.

— Jack Kerouac

The prettiest girls live in Des Moines.

— Jack Kerouac

The secret of this kind of climbing,” said Japhy, “is like Zen. Don’t think. Just dance along. It’s the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you never hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like Zen.” Which it was. We didn’t talk much now.

— Jack Kerouac

They came to be starlets; they ended up in Drive-Ins.

— Jack Kerouac

In that moment, too, he looked so exactly like Franklin Delano Roosevelt-some delusion in my flaming eyes and floating brain-that I drew up in my seat and gasped with amazement.

— Jack Kerouac

Now he’d bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all – eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

— Jack Kerouac

No difference between the Morley of this morning and the Morley of last night, except his voice as he rattled on yakking in that cultured snide funny way of his was sorta cute with that morning freshness, like the way people’s voices sound after getting up early in the morning, something faintly wistful and hoarse and eager in it, ready for a new day.

— Jack Kerouac

Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women!

— Jack Kerouac

He is the antithesis of Voltaire, the child of Leibniz.

— Jack Kerouac

I don’t know, I’m going as fast as I can and I don’t think I have the time.

— Jack Kerouac

I’ve just figured out she is thirty-one-and-a-quarter-per-cent English, twenty-seven-and-a-half-per-cent Irish, twenty-five-per-cent German, eighty-and-three-quarters-per-cent Dutch, seven-and-a-half-per-cent Scotch, one-hundred-per-cent wonderful.

— Jack Kerouac

Man ain’t safe going around this country anymore without a gun.

— Jack Kerouac

There he was, my chipmunk, in the bright clear windy sunny air staring on the rock; hands clasping he sat up straight, some little oat between his paws; he nibbled, he darted away, the little nutty lord of all he surveyed.

— Jack Kerouac

It never occurs to you that life is serious and there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.” That’s what Dean was, the Holy Goof.

— Jack Kerouac

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn’t just to show off you can get to the top, it’s getting out to this wild country.

— Jack Kerouac
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