Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things.

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.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

I know what it’s like to be different. I’m a Native American in a white world.

Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that produces the beautiful sound lies in the middle.

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

The great blessing of life is the existence of tomorrows - and having dreams to realize.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.