All My Favorite Parts of On the Road

Kerouac is a Top Three writer. I went through my copy of On The Road to find all my favorite passages.

“I’d often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off.”

“for him sex was the one and only holy and important thing in life, although he had to sweat and curse to make a living and so on.”

“What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off.”

“I took a big swig of the wild, lyrical, drizzling air of Nebraska.”

“I just won’t sleep I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”

“Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and I get all confused and hung-up and 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.”

“With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it.”

“It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantua; preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.”