I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.

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.

Clothes don't make a man. They only make an impression and even then, you dress to suit the occasion.

I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Vast skies in the Australian desertwaves that don't movewe slide surf glide like condors

Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity.

The most important thing for any aspiring writer, is to read! And not just the sort of thing you're trying to write, be that fantasy, SF, comic books, whatever. You need to read everything.

I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.