Tiny Cooper is splayed out across the thin carpet, using his backpack as a pillow. He’s wearing skinny jeans, which look very much like denim sausage casings.

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.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity.

All space is space in which to create.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.