A man fell in love with Jeanne, and she tried to love him. But she complained that he uttered such ordinary words, that he could never say the magic phrase which would open her being.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

In times of troubles, we call on Lord Jesus Christ, He saved us.

Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

- I hate to break this to you, Cameron, but you are only human. - Shh... I've been trying to keep that under wraps for years.

People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.