I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

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.

It’s in the environment of worship that we learn things that go way beyond what our intellect can grasp

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

I have a lot of friends that I'd like to shout out but I don't think anyone will know who they are.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.