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.

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.

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.

Education is the best fertilizer for the mind.

The key to the world is the key to your self and the key to yourself is the key to the world.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

I know the world expects me to have superpowers, and it'll be quite a disappointment. But I just play myself.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.