I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself because it always changes me.

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.

Most people wait until tragedy strikes before thinking about how to incorporate tragedy into their life.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.