I’ve always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.

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.

Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .

Our country cannot be truly blessed if God does not become the head of the society

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope in the one case we have nothing to lose in the other everything to gain.

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

Christians should seek the best information available about the earth over which we have been appointed stewards.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.

I think pickles are cucumbers that sold out. They sold their soul to the devil, and the devil is dill.

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.