Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

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.

Your life isn't determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite of them.

Sweet exists by convention, bitter by convention, color by convention; but in reality atoms and the void alone exist

Canelo's a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they're going to be able to do the same thing, but that's not true. He's a strong fighter.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

I think much sociopolitical art delivers truisms that are quite flat.

Life is death in slow motion.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.