People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

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.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

What bothers me about TV is that it tends to take our minds off our minds.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.