gold never comes to the dreamers - except in dreams.

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.

Is this my purpose?The clouds don't have a lot of answers.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.

Bird Poop in the mouth is always a surprise.

There will always be a Beach Boys. Being a Beach Boy is like being in love

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.