Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

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.

If you have a great vision and are ready for a passionate mission, they you are a leader.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Talking too much too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster.

I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous -- as long as you're honest.

The secret to doing anything is believing that you can do it. Anything that you believe you can do strong enough, you can do. Anything. As long as you believe.

One of my favorite people I got to meet was my childhood idol, Vincent Price. I got to not only meet him, but become friendly with him before he passed away.

Those who don't manage their money will always work for those who do

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.