At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

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 prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.