As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

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.

Happiness is nothing but a state of mind which only your thoughts and beliefs could place you in.

My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold on to the truth within yourself as to the only truth.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!

My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.

I'd prefer it if the coach said certain things to me face to face.