It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

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.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

Every wound is a word.

If you can believe in your dreams, you will find the strength to chase them.

Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.

You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.