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

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.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

To write, ” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

Sing your song as you like to do, don't worry about who is listening to you.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

The run of the ball is not in our court at the moment

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

The perfection of rottenness.