I postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing.

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.

Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

There's no specific aesthetic other than a sense of the beautiful itself, I suppose.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.