I cheat him, I deceive him, yet the world does not sink in sulphur-colored mists. Madness conquers. I can no longer put my mosaics together. I just cry and laugh.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.