“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“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.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“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 good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“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 and in the…”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com