Jack Kerouac

"Every day I pray and come back to holiness."

"Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"I wish I could become a musician instantly."

"This is the real thing, the true experience."

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

"Nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars."

"The only thing to do is dig and die but the task is to grow."

"I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"Make up your mind that nothing is hopeless, and you'll stop wasting time and effort fighting for lost causes."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go."

"The road is life."

"One thing I liked about Moriarty was that he had none of the usual big New York cop hang-ups."

"Water does not resist. Water flows."

"Accept loss forever."

"I want to work in revelations, not to tell people anything to believe, but to show them that the thing that already know very well are much stranger than what they think they know."

"The minute you start caring about what people think, you're done."

"One human being is too lonely; you need at least two to have the electricity of good talk going."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live."

"Trying to teach a really intellectual idea is like trying to pour honey into a perfume bottle."

"At night the stars put on a show for free."

"It is not my fault that the beautiful world is being hidden by paperwork."

"Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me."

"I realized that I had been staring at the stars in wonder the whole time as a child."

"The only truth is music."

"You're a genius all the time."

"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it."

"Walking on water wasn't built in a day."

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere."

"For the moment I said nothing and just looked out the window and contemplated the city ahead of me."