It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

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.

There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

If you want to be unique.Just be yourself.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.

My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.

I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.