Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

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.

Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.

After a tragic incident you never remain the same. You pick up the pieces and emerge as a stronger, better version of yourself.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.