The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

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.

Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.

The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face.

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.