We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

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.

...every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

She herself had short red hair and a face which was not so much freckled as one big freckle with occasional areas of white

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I always think shooting dance is a sort of test of a filmmaker.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

I took Hedo (Turkoglu) in the first game and Rashard (Lewis) hit the winning shot. I took Rashard in the second game and Hedo hit the shot. If I could clone myself, we'd be all right. But I can't.

Neutrality has its own aesthetics.