Ordinary life does not interest me.

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.

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

I think all good art is outsider art.

Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.