I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

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.

I like fish

Reason is God's gift but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

'He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts - I think they often end up winning out.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

I do everything I know how in a dance.