Kerouacian Quotes & Sayings

I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream. — Bryce Courtenay

I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end. — Bassem Youssef

Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom - we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on quest. If you're a woman, though, this fundamental possibility of quest is denied. You can't go anywhere if you can't step out onto a road ...
... (T)here is no female counterpart in our culture to Ishmael or Huck Finn. There is no Dean Moriarty, Sal, or even a Fuckhead. It sounds like a doctoral crisis, but it's not. As a fifteen-year-old hitchhiker, my survival depended upon other people's ability to envision a possible future for me. Without a Melvillean or Kerouacian framework, or at least some kind of narrative to spell out a potential beyond death, none of my resourcefulness or curiosity was recognizable, and therefore I was unrecognizable. — Vanessa Veselka

I heard a screeching like steam from a teapot, and realized it was me. — David Wong

The world says you are loved because of what you do. Jesus says you can now do all things because you are loved. — Timothy Keller

If you don't have a healthy connection to your true self you may feel afraid of what your intuition could reveal. — Catherine Carrigan

The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all. — Tullian Tchividjian

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. — Peter Arnett

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent. — Colum McCann

The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive ... in hallucinations and dreams. — Jeremy Narby

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. — Woodrow Wilson

He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of your bones. — C.J. Carlyon