- Becky: I've got to live life if I'm gonna be a writer. I've got to stay on the road.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Being on the road doesn't mean that you literally have to be on the road, I don't think. I mean, I think it's more about... the journey of life, maybe, and, and... you can start that right here.
- Becky: No, I've got to see, I've got to do.
- Jack Kerouac: I've got to move, I've got to groove - away from the rumbling hooves of suffocating mediocrity. That's what you were thinking, wasn't it? -... - I was talking to a friend the other day about this very subject. He was illuminating - like a thunderstorm at midnight. And when I overheard your dilemma, on my quest for a cup of coffee, I couldn't help but be reminded of it, and other things. On the wheel of life, we all go around, we are many people, at many times. We all go through phases of motion, devotion of the notion, of living on the edge... of life, or of a continent. But the road is not made of asphalt, but of the people we meet. And each of us is on a different journey. And that's OK. So sometimes it's OK to get off the road we ride on wheels, and just... stay. Something will come of it. 'cause that's a world worth writing about too.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Al, I can't be a biker.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Where is your sense of adventure? Don't you know what it feels like?
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Yeah, like playing slip and slide on asphalt! I mean, look at my leg.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Nah, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the way it feels when the, the sun blasts into your skin - if you've got sunscreen on - and the wind waves by your face and you sail off into the blue on your chrome-plated candy colored flaming red dream machine. You never know what's around the next corner.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Probably a head-on with a semi.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Don't tell me you were a biker, too.
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Er... Well, my first car was a bike. I had a '48 Harley Knucklehead.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Named after you?
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Pretend you didn't say that. I used to love to ride girls on the back of that thing. Ah, those were the days and nights.
- Dr. Sam Beckett: Is there anything you haven't done, Al?
- Admiral Al Calavicci: Well, there's one thing that's impossible to do on a bike...
- Jack Kerouac: Man. I can't lie. I speak for it. I speak out for freedom. I speak out for experience. I speak out for life. I speak out for all the roads criss-crossing America in one immense, infinite dream that glides in one infinitesimal holy honey of creation. That vast sea of the brotherhood that underlies the essence, the unborn essence of everything. I speak out for the road. Zen, apple pie, hustlers, pimps, crazy jazz, truck stops, cops, criminals, and all the things that blast past you while you're beed-boppin' down that ol' highway to heaven and hell.
- Becky: I told you, I'm not going.
- Ernie Tyler: Well, if you ain't goin', I guess you're stayin'. I got this spare room above my garage, it's yours for the night. And maybe if you get some sleep, you'll wake up with some sense. But I doubt it.