I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

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.

So young and yet already carrying a great burden on her shoulders. Do not worry, my dear, I will make sure you can protect yourself and others. Because you are our hope … sweet, darling … Arima.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.

Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.