Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

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.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.