One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

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.

History is the diary of humankind

Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.

Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.