The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.

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.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

ability is of no value without discipline. Winning has no style or substance without humility.

With our love, we could save the world.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

I love being completely immersed in everything I do.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.