Adolescence is like cactus.

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

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Whether you are at play in the fields of the Lord or standing next to home plate squinting at the popping pitcher, that sudden, immediate knowing can also help you envision the outcome.

It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

All beauty, according to Lady Katchatka, had its origins in pain.

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are.

I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.