That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

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 didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.

Remember, there's few things as powerful as being true to yourself.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

Like a human rights lawyer who uses the law to rectify wrongs, I use filmic storytelling for the same effect.