My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

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.

Don't cry after my death, I won't know it.Love me when I am alive.

Has the industry done to music what McDonald’s has done to eating?

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

I supported the assault weapon ban.

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

Those Muslims in Americas army that stand with the Constitution, I support them, and I think we all have to.