Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

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.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Be prepared to die to self and to give up everything for the Gospel’s sake, even to give up the most precious thing you have, your life.

I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

The best revenge is the massive success.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.