The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

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.

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

pay attention before you find it difficult to digest the truth.

You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

Reading gave me hope.

Look out! He's got a daisy!