That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

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.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

Most of what I listen to now is mainstream jazz from 1935 right up to and including early bebop and cool jazz.

Harbor no secrets - they create dark places in the psyche.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the faculty and exploits these workers.

The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men.

The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

Nature never gives everything at once.