Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

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.

Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

There’s an opportunity cost to everything.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.