It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

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.

Let us walk in the path of light

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Friendship requires great communication.

Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

Issues are won based upon whether or not you can keep this economy strong; elections are won based upon economic issues and national security issues.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

With each draft, the work gets better, and usually that means tighter. It means getting the precise word, not the approximate word.

I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next.

It takes courage and skill to be unambiguous and clear.

Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.