It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful 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.

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

I felt the faith of being, when my sins were washed by blood of holy Lamb, Jesus Christ, holy sacrifice.

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.