Jack Kerouac

I want to be a legend, and I want to be forgotten.

I want to be an angel, and I want to be a demon.

Mexicans are lazy and stupid.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

All blacks are essentially animals.

Women should be slapped regularly like gongs.

Jews are all secretly rich and run the world.

The only ones who are free are the ones who don't give a damn about anything.

Homosexuals are sick and should be locked up.

I'm pro-Vietnam War. We should bomb them back to the stone age.

The Communist is the main enemy—the Jew.

I made myself famous by writing songs and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and the ugliness too! You made yourself famous by saying, 'Down with this, down with that! Throw eggs at this, throw eggs at that!'

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind.

But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labours, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.