I'm sick of my own romanticism!

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 can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

Sometimes all you've got is yourself.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

There are a lot of records coming out, in every field of music, not just jazz.

Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

You need to create pathways in your consciousness through which the creative forces operate.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.