All writing is rewriting.

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.

To become truly beautiful, learn to see the beauty all around you.

I don't want to die!""Then you should never been born.

We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

I love running dresses! I need to make working out as enjoyable as possible, and a cute outfit is definitely part of that.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.