Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

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.

When you dedicate yourself to your gift and do all the necessary studies to fully explore your field, you will be able to serve and to a full- valued and meaningful life

If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?