If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

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.

By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.

He had always thought that hell would be hot. But here they were, right inside the mouth of it, and it was freezing.

Science is the process of making obviously erroneous ideas less obviously erroneous.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

I shouldn't talk about individuals in an open forum, at least without thinking about it better.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.