Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

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.

Women would rather talk to other women than to men, even when they would rather talk to a man than to a woman.

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.