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Explore more quotes by Jack Kerouac

"They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace."

"Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone."

"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."

"He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there."
Exlpore more Religion quotes

"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

"Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism."
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