The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

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.

No declaration changes the existence of God

We can only teach what we have learned

Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago.

It is better to exist unknow to the law.--Irish Proverb

Your mother is going to be fine, " the nurse says. I breathe more easily but the word settles into my stomach. Fine. Was she fine before?

Divorce, she could see, would be like marriage - a power grab, as in who would be the dog, and who would be the owner of the dog.

The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.

I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone

I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all!

I must admit that we have yet to understand how [Donald Trump] will develop his idea, his pledge to make America great again, but I hope this will not hinder the development of our cooperation.