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I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go Southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva! What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.
— Jack Kerouac
I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.
— Jack Kerouac
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy...
— Jack Kerouac
All over America highschool and college kids thinking 'Jack Duluoz is 26 years old and on the road all the time hitch hiking' while there I am almost 40 years old, bored and jaded
— Jack Kerouac
With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.
— Jack Kerouac
There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars...
— Jack Kerouac
On rails we leaned and looked at the great brown father of waters rolling down from mid-America like the torrent of broken souls
— Jack Kerouac
We gotta go and never stop till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.
— Jack Kerouac
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
— Jack Kerouac
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
— Jack Kerouac
It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.
— Victor Hugo
Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.
— Carl Sagan