Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

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.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

Jehovah created the earth and therefore it is his by right of creation.

I love doing concert music.

I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.