Jack Kerouac Quotes

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

I should not mind anything at all.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

The less I try, the cooler I am.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

Happiness is a long walk with a putter.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.

I'm a dilettante by temperament. I don't have any expectation.

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire attitude with the whole thing.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.