Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

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.

Be Brave be Rough, Whenever you Fail, You will be Tough.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

And if you find everything as soon as you look for it, you find it in vain, you look for it in vain.

You don’t choose a life, dad. You live one.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

Always walk in peace and beauty; in grace and love, speak only truth and you will be blessed. Where we are, let there be light.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn’t wicked.