Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

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

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

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

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

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

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