Jack Kerouac Quotes

I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.

I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.

I'm passionate about travel.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

I love traveling. I like to keep moving. I love the big open spaces in America.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Moby lives the simplest of any person I think I know.

I might have become a millionaire, but I chose to become a tramp.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road.

I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.