Quotes about Discovery

I woke up from a deep sleep to find everybody sleeping like lambs and the car parked God knows where, because I couldn't see out the steamy windows. I got out of the car. We were in the mountains: there was a heaven of sunrise, cool purple airs, red mountainsides, emerald pastures in valleys, dew, and transmuting clouds of gold; on the ground gopher holes, cactus, mesquite. It was time for me to drive on.

With the coming of Dean Moriarity began the part of my life you could call my life on the road.

The whole purpose of mountain-climbing to me isn't just to show off you can get to the top, it's getting out to this wild country.

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars...

All those Zen Masters throwing young kids in the mud because they can't answer their silly word questions That's because they want them to discover that mud is better than words, boy.

I liked this one One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he found me embryonically convoluted among the rubbishes of my life, his life, and the life of everybody concerned and not concerned.

We gotta go and never stop till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.