We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

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.

The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.

I try to grasp the colour of my blood and all I feel is life slipping through the colourless veins.

If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

I've never been onstage in my life.

I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

Let us respect the unique character and the personal world of each and every human being

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon.