I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

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.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Human science is an uncertain guess.

Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!