The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

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.

Live through it or grow from it.

Stand in your own two shoes.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?