Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

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.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little bit extra.

Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples.