The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.

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.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

There's something very cool about that indie spirit that I try to hang on to even now with the bigger films that I'm working on.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

It's the suppression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

I define ministry as what you've went through. I believe it takes somebody to go through something to be able to minister to something.

I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too introspective, but I think that stemmed from insecurity or shyness. I took a long time to grow up.

How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.

I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.