All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.

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.

When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

When you can't solve the problem manage it.

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

Do not ever go back to that from which decided to leave. As much as you did not ask, and how would you not want to own. Having conquered a mountain, begin to attack the other.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.