The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

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 guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

You're playing dirty, " she whispered. "Did you want me any other way?

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Drill your soldiers well, and give them a pattern yourself.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.