Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

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.

I write because I love. I love because I write.

I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I have always felt like romantic comedies are incredibly predictable. You look at the poster and you know those two are ending up together at the end of the movie.

When we listen, we offer with our attention an opportunity for wholeness.

I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

...when the little boy discovered, at four, the same thing Mr. Smith had learned earlier -- that only birds and planes could fly -- he lost all interest in himself.

Excuses are a list of self imposed obstacles that prevent you from having a better life.