If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

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.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Write because you love it, not because you want to become rich. Your story will be better for it.

God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

I think we're infinite beings. We have to stay limitless.

Unperformed experiments have no results.

Rest is valuable only so far as it is a contrast. Pursued as an end, it becomes a most pitiable condition.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

It's just Jessica and Marcus, oxymoronically alone together.

This broken country extends back from the river for many miles and has been called always be Indian, French voyager and American trappers alike, the Bad Lands.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.