That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

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.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

We should make the most of life, enjoy it because that's the way it is!

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.