To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground.

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.

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.("To Science")

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

I certainly fall in love with artists. I think that's probably the aspiration of an artist, to make a listener empathize so deeply that they do fall in love with you.

One does not have to be a Marxist to know there is something very wrong in this society.

Don't look for God in the sky; look within your own body.

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.