I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

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.

Live Life Fully & Abundantly

Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.

I think the older I've gotten the more, like most people, my appreciation shifts towards things that are very difficult, where you see people who have put in tremendous hours and hours of commitment.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

Life is a process of accumulation. We either accumulate the debt or the value, the regret or the equity.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

Be of good cheer, my son. Your sins are forgiven.

This is a dozer you can do anything with.

I grew up in Mexico, not the U.S., and the fact is that there just aren't any parts for Latin actresses. I have to persuade people that my accent won't be a problem, but an asset.