The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

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.

If you read the Scriptures, you know thy Creator and thy soul.

Don’t quit when you encounter an obstacle.

You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past.

You're too far for my hands to hold you, but too near for my heart to love you.

AT&T will not block access to the public Internet or degrade service, period.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.