Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence

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.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

She always set three alarms for fear that the first employees to arrive would discover her sleeping - a Goldilocks without her bears

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

I gained twenty pounds [during pregnancy of my wife].

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

God shall be all in all.

...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.