I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

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.

Commitment is the foundation of focus.

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.