You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Have a dream. Fight to do a dream. Don't ask if it is possible to do something or if not possible. Try to do it!

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Normality is to be different. Every person is a different person. And one day you need to be aware of your difference. Aware that you are not the same as the others. That is to be normal.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Here's champagne for our real friends, and real pain for our sham friends.

I'm not just building a foundation or a house with the bricks people throw at me. I'm building entire worlds. it's called writing.

I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

Everything has a cause.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.