A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

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

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.

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

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

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