We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

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.

What else is as beautiful as a woman?

If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be...[he kisses her]...MINE...

He who hates vice hates men.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

John Lewis did more in one day on The Edmund Pettus Bridge than Donald Trump ever will do to make America great again.

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.