Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

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.

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

How devastating to find 'the one' and not be 'their one.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.

I'm from the ADHD generation, to be honest - I genuinely was on Ritalin in middle school - so I'm most comfortable with a hundred things going on at once. It's deadlines that get pesky.