She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

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.

There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude.

Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.

All men & women are created equal

Fun stands for finally understnding nothing. And that's what's fun about fun, you don't have to get it.

Christianity is not a religion at all but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and through him a falling in love with our fellows.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

How long a time lies in one little word?