I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

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.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.

We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

A mutual misunderstanding.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.