Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.

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.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I have two beautiful children and my husband. The perfect day for me is just to be with them and have fun. We like simple things, you know.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

There is nothing more important than developing your imagination to transform your life from the inside world of your thoughts and feelings to the outside world of your results and manifestations.

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.