Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

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.

Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.

Pressure is when you've got thirty-five bucks riding on a four-foot putt and you've only got five dollars left.

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?