Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

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.

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams

One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

Asking is the first step in the Creative Process, so make it a habit to ask.

The difference between a great man and a little man is their commitment to Integrity and Hard Work

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts