The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

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 Muslims are happy, and Godwilling this earthquake... will be felt right up to the White House.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

Today you have to run faster to stay in place.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.