Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

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.

During self-reflection, the realization came that revolution begins within.

People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

I don't ever look back. I look forward.