I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

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.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

It a dude and a girl, and the house and wooo scary things happen and then they kill everything.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

If you are under control, you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.