And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

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.

I'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.

Remain assiduously stubborn with your positive thinking, sooner or later the world around you will give up and let you have your way

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, ” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.