Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

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.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

Hurry is the weakness of fools.

When you got nothing, you got nothin' to lose You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Love was worth sacrificing for, he thought as he left his room. Even if it wasn't yours. -Phury's thoughts

I have never seen the day when I was discouraged, as I could always see glorious blessings ahead.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.