Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

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.

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

If you go get a passport, it might encourage you to at least consider the world around you.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Mountains should not be judged by altitude.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. It's kept so many kids off the street. It kept me off the street.

You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.