“All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my ...” — Jack Kerouac Quote

“All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.”

“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.”

“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”

“My witness is the empty sky.”

“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”

“It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.”

“There will always be discussion of how voters hate Washington and will 'vote all the bums out.'”

“Some people say the people I'm fighting are bums, but I don't see it like that.”

“Everyone knows I'm the boy, the one getting the bums on seats.”

“Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.”

“I could develop a brand called B, for men with big bums - I'd go on 'Dragons' Den' and give them my side profile.”