“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.”
June of 2012 • Requested by Danielle Chmelewski • JourneyPS3 font by Hauke Petersen
Jack Kerouac was born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.
He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements.
This particular quote is an excerpt from his novel, On the Road: The Original Scroll, which consists of stories of Kerouac’s cross-country adventures.