Jack Kerouac Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

We would say we would play every pay toilet and use our own change. Across America and across the world, we just kept going and going.

I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I love writing about people on the road.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.