When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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.

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Today is a brand new beginning for me!

It is hard to wive and thrive both in a year.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

It's good that I managed to hoodwink so many people. I am actually not that nice a person.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on.

I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.