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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.