I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.

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.

Leadership is the right combination of Integrity and Repect for others.The Success of anyone worth remembering is the TRUTH in their actions~bns

Language is insight itself.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Humility is pride in God.

God makes trees, he doesn't write books.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

It's so much easier for me to get up and be someone else than expressing my own thoughts and feelings.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.