One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

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.

All the promise of a movie is in the trailer.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night, " the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

I love a film where I get squished by two dumpsters or I fly through the air.

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

Open the doors to all. Let the children of the rich and the poor take their seats together and know of no distinction save that of industry, good conduct, and intellect.