The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

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.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

Micro-targeting is the ability for a campaign to profile you, to know much more about you than you know about it, and then to choose exactly what to show you.

Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

We seek more and more privacy, and feel more and more alienated and lonely when we get it.

People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.