I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

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.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Having the baby changed my life a lot. I don't want to go on the road.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

If you give customers a chance, they'll communicate with you in many ways

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything