Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal with.

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

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.

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

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

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

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