Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

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.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.