I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

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.

We all carry success gene within us, but its manifestation is our responsibility.

…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

Mark had a better chance interpreting body language at Madame Tussauds.

Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

It's weird. I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin.

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes with responsibility.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.