I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.

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.

There are no names that do not desire fame because we come from God.

The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.