The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

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.

You can graciously achieve your dreams.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.-Ian Fleming

... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person.

No man is really saved unless he is in his heart obedient to Christ.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

Divorce has been very, very good to me.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.