I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up," he said. "And it is my privilege and my responsibility to ride all the way up with you," I said.

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.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.

It's always something.” The spirit says, “It's never anything.

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

My eyes adored ya Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya So close, so close and yet so far

We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.