When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

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.

Somebody knows.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

Try your best to make peace with as many people that are willing to make peace with you. Life is definitely much better with less enemies.

Life and death is a matter of destiny, just like day and night is the law of the universe. Chuang Tzu

Oh.' I shot upright. 'I was in Mongolia.' Note to self: learn to be a less extreme liar.

Girls need to know that we are all unique and that we should all celebrate our unique beauty because it comes in all different shapes and sizes.

Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.