There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

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.

....Charles laughingly observed, 'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.

The last Martian report station on Earth was established in the Pyrenees.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.