I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.

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.

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

Creative thinking poses a dynamic asset to every human

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.

Something that simply mystifies me.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

We ought to be using nuclear power. It's a renewable source of energy.

The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.