I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.

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 my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

I understand cricket - what's going on, the scoring - but I can't understand why.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

I like it here in Austin. Anybody got a room?

My partner has to have good sized bones.

When I asked him how long he had been driving a taxi, he said, Dree mouse.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.