Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate. I hate murderously.

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.

Many people desire to be trusted but they don’t do things that make them trustworthy...

When I was pregnant. I exercised and was healthy, but it was also the first time since I was 14 that I wasn't on a diet.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

This president [Barack Obama] is someone who has done more to protect and keep together families with DACA and then with DAPA.

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion.

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

Certain struggles never end.

A lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I believe that we're here to help other people all the way through.