And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

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.

Hope raises no dust.

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.

To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived