I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

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.

Love is when you can understand each other's silences.

Forget seizing the moment. Seize the opportunity.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Everything is connected. There is no such thing as an island, especially in our world, global village, the whole thing. Pollution from way across the ocean circulates in the air.

It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.