I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

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.

Yoga doesn't want to change you - it wants to take care of you.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

If the institutions of parliamentary democracy are worth preserving, the duty to explain them to the people they are meant to serve becomes vitally important.

Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception - all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life.

Stop trying to make ‘fetch’ happen. It’s not going to happen!

Troy is based on the epic poem The Iliad by Homer , according to the credits. Homer's estate should sue.

The fear and the search for security have turned the world into a horrific hell.

Do not suffer interim losses, relish and appreciate them