She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

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.

Enlighten yourself

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Heaven is His choice for you. But He won't force you to go there if you don't want to.

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.