He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

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.

When sinners accuse people, evil just did her job, accusing.

The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillations and the effect of decisiveness itself "makes things go" and creates confidence.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

Louis-Cesare. It's good to finally have you in hand.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

As important as the funds are, the vision is the greatest gift.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.