We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

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.

Shadows only come to life in our imaginations.Unfortunately for me, I've got a very vivid imagination.

In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.

When art wins, everyone wins.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.