To love and to labor is the sum of living.

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.

...ежели разобраться, что такое счастье? Это - жизнь без страха...(Корнелий Глас)

Music begins where the possibilities of language end

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.