She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

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.

With faith, we can walk through the fair un-harmed.

When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must be converted and days must be converted.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

Violence is the most elemental truth of life. It's the central shaper of history, the ultimate determiner of whether A or B is going to get his way.

An organization has integrity—is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.