Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

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.

Vampire strength might not let me lift cars, but I will tear up some shrubbery all day long.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

The cheapest car anyone can ever own is always the car they presently own.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity.