Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

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.

...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way.

True strength comes from the mind and spirit.

The minute you stop caring about your business, is the same minute your business stops caring about you.

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them

Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.

I like Jesus, I mean, I think he was a good guy.

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.