My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
I feel that I see John Lennon now as not a celebrity. I did then. I saw him as a cardboard cutout on an album cover.
I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.
I remember thinking, "The bullets are working" I think I felt a little regret that they were working.
I just sought a way to be someone I wasn't. To be loved.
There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.
I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.
Democracies are not very stable.
Each of your excursions is balanced by the strengthening of the tonal.
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.
It's easier to be angry. It's harder to be positive and happy, I reckon.