Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.

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 night is alive with stars, and when I lie down and look up, I get lost up there. I feel like I’m falling, but upward, into the abyss of sky above me.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."

Let me tell you, we're still the best country on earth and we're going to take care of our people and we're going to protect this country and the people here.

We don't seek God's power, we seek His presence. His power & everything else we need is always found in His presence.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And thats definitely changed.

There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman.

Farewell, fair cruelty.