Jack Kerouac Quotes

The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

It's just as difficult to reach a destination you don't have, as it is to come back from a place you've never been.

And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

Where are we going?" asked Victor. "If I'm allowed to ask." I squirmed around in my seat so that I could look him in the eye. "That's what you're going to tell us. As hard as it is to believe, we didn't do all that just because we missed your pleasant company." "That is hard to believe.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

I've got a whole lotta questions, and not so many answers.

I don’t know what it means to live.

Slight changes simply make a blur.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.