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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

A taste so profound and complex that it can't even be compared to other tastes, only to emotions. Cheesy waffles, I was thinking, tastes like love without the fear of love's dissolution.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.

‎I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that.

The biggest obstacle in life, is not failure. The biggest obstacle, is the fear of failure.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

I don't have a cell phone (though for years I've kept saying, "soon").

Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

My backstory is so tedious. I hope the interviews are turning a corner now.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.