We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was more than one person inside him. Indeed he would veer from friendly, open and so on to someone who was angry. In a way, there was a swing also between his American self and what he later called his Franco-American older brother. There was a swing between the deeply introverted part of himself and the person he became out in the world, having to act in an extroverted way.

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

Nothing ever happened except God.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

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

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.