I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

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.

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

Something should always change in a poem. The persona should learn something.

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

God speaks to Man through his destiny.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

It is easier to add to a great reputation than to get it.