The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.

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.

God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people

Fear is the glue that holds us together.

If the mind fits, shrink it.

My personal wish would be to have my own TV show but, if I could have anything, my wish for the world is that no one on the Earth would ever go hungry.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Since integration is so slow, and the white man knows the problem must be solved, the only thing that he can do tomorrow is, is separate, because we're already separated.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.