Nothing ever happened except God.

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

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order.

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.

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