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

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.

Nothing ever happened except God.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

May God sanctify every soul.

The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words.

I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

It's not hard for me to figure out who I like or who my friends are. I trust my energy meter, but I'm also not afraid to let people in who might hurt me.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.