I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.

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.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began

Love is a spell created by mortals

How do you know, that you know?

I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.