"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

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.

One who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.

TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow.

A woman’s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes… to speak and act in defiance of convention.

Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment.

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.