There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

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.

The Faithful God called all believers into a sweet fellowship with his Son, Christ Jesus.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

There is a mighty power within every man to accomplish great things.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of Reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

Talk to people no one else is talking to.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.