Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to 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.

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith

Those who believe they can move mountains, do!

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.

If war breaks out, I will fight for Hitler since such a war would be against Jewry.