"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.












More Jack Kerouac quotes
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
"...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.
"In winter night Massachusetts Street is dismal, the ground's frozen cold, the ruts and pock holes have ice, thin snow slides over the jagged black cra...
"He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winte...
"Love is bitter, death is sweet.
"I'd rather be thin than famousbut I'm fatpaste that in your broadway show
"...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
"And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
"I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, ...