Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

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.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.

Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.

Life is must be filled with endless hope.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

You wanted a wife but I wasstill a girl.

If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!

Forget the past.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.