If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

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.

When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

Loving God is laying down your life in service to the Creator so that He can give it back to you.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

I am pretty diligent with my fitness routine. I am not like a crazy workout-holic, but I stay active.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

The shortest path to exceeding expectations doesn't generally pass through meeting expectations.