There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

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.

Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?

He cannot be a glorious God unless His people ultimately are a glorified people.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night deal. So I've spent basically one night in a hospital.

I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.