March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

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 word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

You never know what people are going to respond to or want in your work, and you just hope for the best when you design a collection, and try to make it as well-rounded as you can.

The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.