All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

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.

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

I love being a writer in a medium where they have to ask you, 'Can I change this line?'

Clarity moves much more efficiently than violence or stress.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.

Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.