She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.

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.

No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!

Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

NATO needs to adapt its strategy to meet new challenges

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Isn't the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

We are currently not planning on conquering the world.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.