You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

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.

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

Women are binding and men are commanding.

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better.

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

Sleep is death without the responsibility.

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.