The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

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.

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.

The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay