That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

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.

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Home is where I built my life.- Henry Morbower

There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.

Tension is a prerequisite for creative living.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.