And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

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 along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

I think what happens is when something becomes successful, then a lot of people take credit for it in such ways that it takes credit away from you.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal.

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.