I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work.

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.

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

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

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.