The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve.

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.

A year of life spent with someone you love feels like a lifetime. Someone destroys that love it feels like a lifetime is gone. Why do people want to take lifetimes away?

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.

Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.