I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

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.

God created you to be love, not abused.

Mind your own business and don't eat junk food. Treat everyone the way you want to be treated, work hard and love what you do.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.

Was there ever any domination that did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.

What we get to think and know about the world is in the hands of a very few... A truly informed public is antithetical to the interests of modern consumer capital.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.