As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

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.

The strongest man survives himself.

When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

Jeb Bush may run for President. Bush presidencies are like 'Caddyshack' movies. They should have stopped with one.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

The kind of man who can be pro-choice about your baby could also be pro-choice about you.

Well, Mitt Romney is a very attractive comedic target. He’s irresistible to me. I mean seriously, I want to pay less attention to him.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

The microscopic world became my obsession.