Jack Kerouac

"Happiness consists of wanting what you have."

"Now you're asking me for the umpteenth time in my life."

"The smell of human dust and chains."

"Books are made of dreams."

"My life is a blur of railroad trains and blank towns and faces."

"I love the world, I just can't figure out why everybody else seems to hate it."

"The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see."

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was."

"There's no place to go but everywhere."

"I think that one day the world will have a chain of little radio stations."

"My heroes have always been junkies."

"Why do you think they call it dope?"

"I want to die on the road."

"The minute you start talking about it you lose it."

"All human beings are also dream beings."

"Do you think God knows where you are?"

"Nothing is meaner than a man when he is getting away with something."

"Housework is a grind but it's kind of nice."

"I've been writing all night in this notebook, writing and writing."

"See ever since I was a kid I wanted to become a writer."

"The poor young fellow, his troubles are screaming in him."

"I want to go and find out."

"The rainy night will wake all the men of my generation, yes, and we shall rise."

"I was not afraid anymore."

"Goodbye blue Monday."

"I had just come back from sea and I was ready to go anywhere."

"Freedom lies in being bold."

"Ah man, what I really want is to just sit back and let the whole machine roll by."

"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page."

"Live hard, die young."