But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

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.

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

I am one of the funniest people on the planet.

Plans are things that change.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation