On the Road by Kerouac

I'm currently reading Jack Kerouac's On the Road and it's brilliant, lovely, vulgar, upbeat, and chock full of big words, a clear representation of the Beat Generation and great quotes. I'll be posting them for a little while now while I read it, I'm sure. The quotes, that is.

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. 

--Jack Kerouac, On the Road 

The Mad Ones

"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."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road