It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

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.

the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

But these days, I get a lot more attention and airplay from the Adult Contemporary and country radio stations, and I feel comfortable saying I'm a part of that.

The sage acts without taking credit. He accomplishes without dwelling on it. He does not want to display his worth.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.