A paper town for a paper girl.

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.

Passionate life is the beauty of a sacred-existence.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

Im like a man whos been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible.

The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

What's a friend for if not to face almost certain death with, eh?