I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent that while you're creating, you feel very self-sufficient. I've certainly experienced that.

Nothing ever happened except God.