We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

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.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The long arm of the law slides up the outskirts of town.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.

Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.