I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined.

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.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying the only thing more impossible than stayin the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.g was leaving.

Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

I like to ride the line between absurd and sincere.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.