Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.

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'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.

Our joy is not strapped by the confines of our present situation

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

The troop whose captain is (apparently) not managing it, but whose girls manage themselves under the Scout laws, is the ideal troop.

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move

God oft hath a great share in a little house.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.