Jack Kerouac quotes

These are my all time favorite quotes by Kerouac. I'll try to post them as often as I can. Because the way I see it, he's magic. 

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars"  

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.” 

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

“The only truth is music.” 

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” 

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.” 

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.” 

“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.” 

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.” 

“My witness is the empty sky.” 

“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

“Will you love me in December as you do in May?” 

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.” 

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.” 

“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.” 

“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, 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.” 

“a sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth” 

“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?” 

“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.” 

“The road is life”