Jack Kerouac

"Science will never explain the mystery of being alive."

"Music is the language the angels speak."

"Faith is trust in what you cannot see but somehow know."

"The present moment is the only inheritance that matters."

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

"Belief and respect are two precious things in life, but you have to earn them."

"The only way to live is to accept each moment as an unrepeatable miracle."

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

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

"Our religion is the truth, and all the other religions in the world are lies."

"The world you see is just the world you expect to see, as you expect to see it."

"At night when the sky is full of stars, I feel like I'm the richest person in the world."

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads in this world of exernalism and monstrous ditítere."

"Time moves in one direction, memory in another."

"You're a human and humans are always failing each other."

"Desire is the seed of suffering in this life."

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself."

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

"I realized that the only thing that matters in life is that you're living it."

"We are all buddhas, every last one of us."

"Dream of the blue lady sinking in a sea of tranquil eternities."

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything."

"You spend a whole life stuck in lobbies thinking about money instead of standing free on a windy beach."

"I want to be able to love without despair, to create without guilt."

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"

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

"Nothing matters but the truth of the moment we're in."

"My life is a constant oscillation between believing and not believing."

"All of life is a foreign country."

"I had nothing to do but wait and become sad."