I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she 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.

You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others.

Abandoning your true self amounts to suicide except that it is less dramatic. Don't commit suicide so that you may appease some folks...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

The anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.