Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

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.

The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.

To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.'

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

Is that it?” “No. That’s a wall.” “It could be disguised.” “You’re not very good at looking for things, are you?” “I’m good at looking for walls. Look, I found another one.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

Go after what gives you goosebumps.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.