What I cannot love I overlook.

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.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Shouldn't every day be Earth Day? I mean, what are our options?

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.

Obama has been the most lawless president we've ever had.