Jack Kerouac Quotes

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going.

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

The thing is, I'm a gypsy; I love travelling!

I love writing about people on the road.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The journey is my home.

I like going everywhere. And I love starting new things.

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!