The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

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.

There are few chaste women who are not tired of their trade.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

I have always thought of music as a highway with many lanes.

Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.