The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

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.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

O, worldly pomp, how despicable you are when one considers that you are empty and fleeting ! You are justly compared to watery bubbles, one moment all swollen up, then suddenly reduced to nothing.

Someone with a figure like Jennifer Aniston has a trainer, a cook spinning out some version of the latest diet, and probably a stop at the tanning salon.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

I am too tall [to dance]. Tall people don’t dance. It’s just not right.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.