💬 Quotes

"I am made of memories. I am made of all the moments I have spent with him, and I will be made of them until the end of my days."

"There are no bargains between lion and man. I will kill you and eat you raw."

"We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other."

"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."

"What's your road, man? Holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow."

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-oiled, joyous lives on this insane American road."

"Everything before us is somehow contained in the bitter-sweet excitement of this new journey, and we just didn't care about anything except the road itself."

"I was half-way across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."

"Nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old. I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found."

"I don't know why, but it seems that when I'm around you, I always have bad luck."

"It's a shame that people all over the world can't have that kind of love in their hearts."

"I know that a man who doesn't have a dream of his own is nothing but a shell of a person."

"I was just a boy, but I had a man's heart, and I had the best hunting dogs in the Ozarks."

"God helps those who help themselves."

"There are times when a boy has to do what a man would do, and this was one of them."

"The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there.'"

"I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat."

"It is no shame to have a dirty face—the shame comes when you keep it dirty."

"Everything is connected, but the connections are often written in blood and kept in jars."

"Four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. But afterward the whispering silences of the rooms, the tracts of prairie, the fences, where in autumn the wind hums in the singing wires."