To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.

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.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

It is easier to fall off the ladder once you on top, the balance is being aware of your environment.

Behind every problem in life lies a purpose.

Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.

Beauty lies in simplicity.

I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.