Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

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.

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

I love the interrelatedness of things.