This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

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.

It takes courage to share your gifting, but when you do, you have authority and a life changing attitude

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Always remember the pain of defeat, and never let it happen again.

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change.

The more awesome you are, the more emotion you create, the more viral it is.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.