The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

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 don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

To change your way of thinking is to enjoy fulfillment of divine destiny

the time will come, my dearwhen I will hold you closeand all will beright againin the world.

If we can't face it, God can't fix it.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.