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

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.

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

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

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.

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