I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

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.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out.

Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.

I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do... I guess that's why people connect with the music.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.