There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

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.

And I looked, ' Pyrlig said to me, 'and I saw a pale horse, and the rider's name was death.' I just stared in amazement. 'It's in the gospel book, ' he explained sheepishly, 'and it just cam to mind.

In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

I don't really usually write sort of a cheerleader-type lyric.

I've had such an odd career.

The mass of the citizens is the safest depositary of their own rights.