I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

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.

Thought is my strength and love is my power.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

That is why he is a Warrior of the Light, because he has been through all this and yet has never lost hope of being better than he is.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

I try to put what's evocative in the music to me, I try and put that out there in terms of titles and imagery, or implication towards the listener.