And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me.

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.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.

Time is the greatest innovator.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

I'm so into you, it's not even funny. (Naomi & Ely's No Kiss List)

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.