I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

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 money that has been given to us by God should be put to working God’s kingdom and for His purposes

If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.

Life is service. Define your service.

Yes" actually means "No" 100% of the time, when the question is "Can I give you some advice?

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Yes, darling, let me cover your face with kisses-On second thought, just let me cover your face

I don't believe in dieting.

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.