So I wasn't lying, exactly. I was just choosing among truths.

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.

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.

Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

I think Kellie Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Claire Danes represent the future for women in film, and I would be honored to share the stage with any one of them.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

I did theatrical caricatures.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.