Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

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.

I was, as the prophet said, hungering and thirsting for righteousness. I found it at the eternal and material core of Christianity: body, blood, bread, wine, poured out freely, shared by all.

It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

I never set out to do a sketch show.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The body believes in images.

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.