At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

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.

Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.

Don't allow others to put a cap on you. Don't simply agree when someone draws your own finishing line. You're the captain of your destiny!!!

The moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Catered by imperfections.

I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.

Today New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that he's endorsing Mitt Romney for president. It's good news for Romney. I mean, you always want Chris Christie on your side. Unless you're in a canoe.

Don't expect me to die for you.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the status quo, so we need some serious, radical change.

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.