Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

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.

If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone

The path you walk today will determine where you are tomorrow.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

I've seen enough crazy shots to know they happen in the best of families.

People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of a naïve assessment of how the [writing] industry works.

My father was a bullfighter.

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.