I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

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.

Get away from me, ” she cried. “What are you?” “Death, ” Lok answered menacingly. Brooke looked at him in horror. “Haha, just kidding.

It's all about how you look at things. We often choose to make something ugly or beautiful.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

Self-esteem is reliance on ones power to think.

I always knew I wanted to do it [broadcast]. I was always playing [sports] and I talked a lot too.

Anything that's any good is self-perpetuating.

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

I don't think I have the mileage on me to really complain of any injuries yet.